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Why do the yanks go round under the impression Columbus was the first to discover there country? The Dutch were there half a century before him, and surely it would be the native people of the land, the Indians! Why do they go round not knowin who actually gave their name to their country? It was Richard Amerike, a man of welsh blood, not this Amerigo Vespucci clown that everyone seems to think!
I don't know about Richard Amerike, but the Native Americans who greeted all the explorers might have been under the opinion that their country was already "discovered." Richard Amerike
snippet: Richard Amerike (Ameryk or ap Meryk) (c. 1445-1503) was a wealthy English merchant of Welsh descent who, it is theorized, funded John Cabot's voyage of discovery to North America in 1497. He is chiefly remembered because of the theory, not widely held, that the Americas are named after his surname.
The first people to set foot on US soil besides the natives where the Chinese who sailed to what is now California, and the Vikings explored Canada centuries before the Dutch. Besides, I believe that most Americans are aware that Columbus only landed in the West Indies. There is a theory that America was named after Richard Amerike, but it is not considered fact.
Why do you call Amerigo Vespucci a clown, what did he ever do to you?
Columbus never made it past the island of Hispañola (modern-day Haiti/Dominican Republic). But the absolute first humans in the Americas were the 10 to 15 who walked across the Baring Straight Land Bridge, many moons ago.
"Even though the country had been inhabited by Indians for many centuries, Christopher Columbus has became famous as the man who "discovered" America in 1492. However, he was not even the first European to reach the North American continent. The first Europeans, the Vikings, arrived in North America in the 11th century. They had settlements in parts of present-day Canada for a short while, but their presence in America went by quite unnoticed."
"1492? Not according to Ruggero Marino, who claims that Columbus actually reached America in 1485. The conventional view is that Columbus set sail on the first of his four great voyages in 1492, having been sponsored by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain. Marino argues that there was an earlier, and wholly successful voyage, financed by Pope Innocent VIII and his relatives, the Medici family. Marino continues, claiming that when Innocent died, the new Pope, Alexander VI, gave the 'rights' and information to the leaders of his native Spain, prompting Columbus's, apparently better known, journeys."
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