SC - Americans and corn (was: Food guessing game)
LrdRas at aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Mon May 8 07:10:41 PDT 2000
In a message dated 5/8/00 7:29:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com
writes:
<< I think they also may have considered that Columbus discovered America in
> 1492 >>
More accurately Columbus is credited with discovering America. He actually
found a group of islands in the area of the Atlantic south of the American
continent which were inhabited by the descendants of the people who
discovered it centuries before. He never set foot on the American continent,
SFAIK. Several centuries before the Vikings had found Newfoundland and
navigated the St. Lawrence. Again even they found the descendants of those
who actually discovered it.
What Columbus did was open up the New World to European domination and set
off a series of events which resulted in the complete destruction of several
highly advanced preexisting cultures. Hardly, a thing to be glorified for,
IMO.
Ras
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