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How did the settlement of the Vikings change the course of world history? That's why Columbus is famous, his voyages changed Europe first then the rest of the world.
China could have, but they turned xenophobic. The Vikings just set up trading posts and went away after a couple hundred years.
Columbus, and the follow on explorers from Spain, France, England, the Netherlands, even the Swedes, set down colonies and then, especially the English and Spanish, populated the New World.
The person who discovered America was probably some guy who got lost hunting woolly mammoths.
The first Europeans in America were Norse Vikings. Where are the Thor statues?
Yeah, the people that came over during the ice age are the ones who discovered America.
We actually don't know who the first Europeans in America were, they may have been Portuguese fishermen that got blown off course or even Phoenicians or Greeks. We really have no idea. Either way, they didn't "discover" anything because there were already people here for thousands of years.
Indigenous people in Central America were aware of people with Caucasian features already by the time Hernan Cortez arrived.
Columbus arriving in the Americas was obviously historically significant, it changed the world. But even he died not knowing he was in a "new" land, he just thought it was Asia.
I’m perfectly fine if we as a country want to move away from Columbus. Statues can come down, we can rename the holiday, rename whatever, and expunge his record in history by just recognizing him as just another explorer who made it over to the new world after sailing the Atlantic.
We could call the holiday Native American Day or whatever.
The person who discovered America was probably some guy who got lost hunting woolly mammoths.
The first Europeans in America were Norse Vikings. Where are the Thor statues?
The Welch were all over Arizona in the 1200's.
The Templers, were in Nova Scotia, before Columbus.
Columbus was hired by the Spanish king, to guide 3 ships full of men, women and yes, children... to the Americas, discovered long before. GOLD. It was all about GOLD.
"When discovered" The Cherokee and Seminole tribes of the now Carolina's through Florida, had many with blonde and red hair... blue and green eyes.
Columbus was the leading excursion of a planned attempt to settle the Americas.
The person who discovered America was probably some guy who got lost hunting woolly mammoths.
The first Europeans in America were Norse Vikings. Where are the Thor statues?
If there were statues to the Vikings, BLM and ANTIFA would have torn them down.
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