American Indians

Sorry Javier, but your source is a few cents short of a dollar!

But continue to post!

Regards, Ron

Originally posted by red clay Columbus didn't discover anything except how to get a government to support an expedition. As to discovering America, Columbus was dead last.

Well, he discovered hispaniola. So he discovered America, but not the continent, but just an island in the caribean Sea. And as it seems did he not discover this first, Portuguese and French seem to have been there, the Vikings had been there, maybe as well henry Sinclair. But what Columbus' journey caused, was to make these "new" continent public.

Originally posted by Javier I suppose everyone know about Christopher Columbus's discovery so i digged a little bit and i found this thing about him, that <span style="border: 0px; font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: line; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: line;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: line;">Christopher Columbus has had a strong impact on the lives of American Indians. Small kids learn frequently about this impeccable personality in their history and social science classes. Christopher is really popular for his 15th century ocean voyages. He was also the first European to visit America. So see here some new interesting things http://columbianexchange.org/what-were-the-major-effects-of-christopher-columbus-on-the-american-indians/</span></span></span>

Your post is very wide of the mark. The indigenous South American people are not commonly referred to as American Indians, that name is for the indigenous North American people. Columbus did not discover the Americas. He certainly was not the "Knight in Shining Armour" you paint him to be. He was a greedy blood thirsty con man whose only reason to be in South America was to steal gold from the natives. Whether intended or not, the disease he brought to South America was instrumental in wiping out the majority of a culture, who had survived murderous attacks by his men.

Originally posted by opuslola Actually toyo...., these infections were bound to occur with or with out Colombo! So it is a specious argument! I could also offer you the idea that he "Columbo" did not sail West, but East? His statue in the harbor of Barcelona shows him pointing "due East!" Smile! Ron

Oy Vey!!!

Had it not been for the importation of previously unknown diseases, to which the locals had not time to build up immunity, the great South American civilisations may well have lasted for many more centuries. The diseases were unknown in South America, so how do you suggest that they would have "arrived" in South America, if not imported?