10 October, 2017
Posted by Socrates in Christopher Columbus, history, History for newbies, Socrates, Vikings, Western civilization, Western culture at 1:41 pm | Permanent Link
Yeah, okay, it is said that Leif Eriksson and the Vikings founded the New World by accident way back in circa 1000 AD. Anyway, all of the other famous European explorers (e.g., Coronado, Ponce de Leon, De Soto) arrived in America after Columbus, so he did, in fact, “discover” America in 1492 (i.e., he wrote […]