Revision Questions
and today we know that he was no more the discoverer of America than Pocahontas was
the discoverer of Great Britain. *On the contrary, they view the arrival of Christopher
Columbus in 1492 as an occasion to be mourned. The politically correct view is that
Columbus did not discover America, because people had lived here for thousands of
years. Worse yet, it's claimed, the main legacy of Columbus is death and destruction.
Columbus is routinely vilified as a symbol of slavery and genocide.
Native Americans had built great civilizations with many millions of people long before
Columbus wandered lost into the Caribbean. Columbus' voyage has even less meaning
for North Americans than for South Americans because Columbus never set foot on our
continent, nor did he open it to European trade. Scandinavian Vikings already had
settlements here in the eleventh century, and British fisherman probably fished the
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