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In reply to the discussion: Columbus didn't "Discover" anything. Seriously. The NA Continent was already discovered. [View all]dballance
(5,756 posts)24. Yep, you're likely correct.
I watched a documentary the other day on how there are some theories emerging that at the end of the last ice age as the seas rose to overtake the sea-side civilizations that some from the Mediterranean migrated to the Americas and this is another good theory to explain some of the architecture found in Mexico and Central/S. America that is very similar to ancient building techniques on the Med side of the Atlantic. With the find of the Antikythera mechanism we've had to re-evaluate our thoughts about the ability of ancient peoples knowledge of the stars and navigation of the oceans.
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Columbus didn't "Discover" anything. Seriously. The NA Continent was already discovered. [View all]
dballance
Oct 2013
OP
I Think It's Insulting to the Indigenous Peoples to say "Discovered" the way it's said now.
dballance
Oct 2013
#2
Coronado did not visit the Grand Canyon. He went to Zuni and turned east to the Rio Grande pueblos.
Coyotl
Oct 2013
#12
he reported back to the dominant civilization on the planet the existence of another continent
CBGLuthier
Oct 2013
#9
Spain was anything but the dominant civilization on the planet. Spain was totally uncivil.
Coyotl
Oct 2013
#13
He discovered something unknown to a major center of civilization and learning
krispos42
Oct 2013
#10
What Columbus "discovered" was ALREADY a major center of civilization and learning.
dballance
Oct 2013
#15
Exactly. Asians "discovered" North America thousands of years before Columbus and
pampango
Oct 2013
#14
Damn immigrants. They've been intruding on "our" land since before "we" even discovered it.
pampango
Oct 2013
#18
Believe me, as a Daughter of the LAKOTA the lies never get past my Elementary School grandchildren..
Tikki
Oct 2013
#19
Maybe it's because we live in a Liberal Blue Coast State, but none of our sons' teachers..
Tikki
Oct 2013
#25
Yeh, time to stop perpetuating this lie, and stop celebrating the start of the systematic genocide
Zorra
Oct 2013
#20
My prediction is that we will find evidence of waves of immigrants to the Americas
Taverner
Oct 2013
#21
Well, yep. A self-centered, profiteer with no empathy for other humans. So Yes.
dballance
Oct 2013
#26