FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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He sent an email to the King!
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He founded one of the first 13 colonies.
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His voyage and discovery began the “Age of Exploration” and started the journey into the New World.
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He paid someone to say he discovered America first.
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Detailed explanation-1: -So if Columbus wasn’t first, why does he get all of the credit? He opened up America to Europe, which was the expansionist power at the time. He was the one who made it possible for them to conquer the Western Hemisphere-and to bring with them the diseases that apparently wiped out 90 percent of the population.
Detailed explanation-2: -Though he did not really “discover” the so-called New World-millions of people already lived there-his journeys marked the beginning of centuries of exploration and colonization of North and South America.
Detailed explanation-3: -In actual fact, Columbus did not discover North America. He was the first European to sight the Bahamas archipelago and then the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America.
Detailed explanation-4: -Columbus was the first explorer to discover America. False: Scholars believe it was Viking Leif Erickson who first came from overseas to America. In fact, they believe Columbus wasn’t even the first European to discover what we know as the Americas.