As an American Indian, I can assert, with some degree of positivity, that Christopher Columbus (or Amerigo Vespucci, or even Eric the Red) did not “discover” America.
By the same token, I did not “discover” England or Germany when I traveled there with my parents in the early 1950s!
My people “discovered” the Americas thousands of years ago when we crossed the land bridge between Asia and the Americas.
As an American Indian, I can assert, with some degree of positivity, that Christopher Columbus (or Amerigo Vespucci, or even Eric the Red) did not “discover” America.
By the same token, I did not “discover” England or Germany when I traveled there with my parents in the early 1950s!
My people “discovered” the Americas thousands of years ago when we crossed the land bridge between Asia and the Americas.