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Originally Posted by carolandjohn

Some schools' history curriculum was severely lacking.

Originally Posted by nututv

Not when I was attending. Columbus discovered America in 1492. After the Indians, Vikings and most likely a few others. lol

You just made carolandjohn's point...perfectly.

Forget that there were already millions inhabiting "The America's"...Columbus never set foot anywhere close to the USA.

Columbus (sail here)

Yes, let's ignore the fact that millions of humans already inhabited this land later to be called the Americas, having discovered it millennia before. And let's ignore that whole Leif Ericson voyage to Greenland and modern-day Canada around 1000 C.M.E. If Columbus discovered America, he himself didn't know.

What Columbus "discovered" was the Bahamas archipelago and then the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America.

He never got close to what is now called the United States.

So, YOUR education (as was mine and tens of millions of others)...was false and woefully incomplete.



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