Nawww it was Amerigo Vespucci. He landed first in Costa Rica then proceeded up along the coast of the of Mexico, around the Yucatan Peninsula and through the Gulf of Mexico then up along the east coast of what is now the united states.

 

I was being as facetious. . As normal . Amerigo Vespucci was a cousin on my father side

 

Leif Eriksson the Norse explorer is believed to have led the first European expedition to North America. Nearly 500 years before the birth of Christopher Columbus....

 

^^^^^ And evidence supports this !

 

Yes it does. Absolutely.
Quite seriously - not even the the most jaundiced of historians would argue otherwise.
Eriksson as the name suggests was the the son of Erik the Red, the founder of the Norse colonies on Greenland.
Archaeologists now think they have found evidence of the actual settlement sites. Named by the Norse - Vinland.
As a long term proposition the Norsemen thought settlement unviable because the native americans they encountered
were so hostile.
Incidentally - when the first European cod fishermen finally found their way to the Newfoundland banks they
found the Basques already there & had, actually, been fishing there for generations.

 

Columbus never actually made it to America. He only got as far a Cuba.
BUt he did a hell of a brutal job of conquering Hispaniola.

 

Yea let’s change history to accommodate . The protesters. Columbus was a slave trader . Who got drunk and crashed into America . He told Lincoln to go fuck himself .

 

We’ve made the time before the Europeans arrived in the Americas a halcyon. Far from it.

Even human sacrifice was relatively common as well as internecine conflict.

So, as tempting as it is, Europeans can’t be blamed for everything.

I, for one, feel no sense of guilt.

 

Face it. Humans are nothing more than Animals. The worst & Most Dangerous kind of Predator, since they are willing to prey upon their own kind for sport. They do not kill each other for food. (Unless they are the Donner Party)

 

What - Willie Dixon discovered/conquered America ?
Who knew ?

 

You still a jerk , did you come back to burn the cities like Sherman. Sir .

 

slaves not spaces ffs !

 

I didn't know anyone objected to sex slaves, of either gender!

 

Who is Coumbo ? A great African leader?

 

But we can stop celebrating slavery. Oh wait useless pussy redneck racists refuse to do that.

 

celebrating slavery?, did Trump dedicate a special day to National Slavery now?

 

thepervertedV dont be compounding the problems now by adding more relevant facts , you'll put Sanity_is_Relative in a tailspin of denial.

 

You still want to talk about celebrating slavery Sanity_is_Relative...Seems to me that this, celebrates exactly what you dont want to celebrate.

 

You had to have passed first grade to have learned anything you idiot.

 

NO, he was a profiteer that lied and cheated and killed to get what he wanted. And though it may not be prosecutable we still can stop teaching people that a slaver was a founder of a nation, and supposedly some kind of person to be looked up to. The very fact that he changed his name multiple times in his begging to hide from his creditors and the law enforcement of the day as well as fled his home country should tell people that that did nothing piece of trash should not have a holiday.

 

Is a historian bigot anything like a warrior poet?

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The Spanish did nothing, Columbo did that part, the Spanish were simply the idiots that received the enslaved to be transported elsewhere. Besides only idiots believe the ships were named the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, educated people know the real names, la Santa Clara, La Pinta, and la Santa Gallego. And the very fact that this farce never set foot on the continent of either north or south America and was preceded by Lief Erikson and Amerigo Vespucci(the man the continent is named for).