Thread: Secret of How Columbus Discovered the New World
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Default Secret of How Columbus Discovered the New World
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I don't know of any reputable historian who doesn't believe that
Columbus was not the first European to journey to the New World (L'Anse
aux Meadows (sp?), various charts, Lief Ereicsson, etc). But being
"first" isn't the point - he his importnat because his was the
expedition that "stuck" and resulted in a permanent European presence
in the Western Hemisphere


Agreed. Others had been there but his voyages were the "thin
end of the wedge."

DSK