How Did Columbus Didn T Find America

Glimpsing Into The Past
If Columbus didn’t find America, who did? Obviously, Columbus wasn’t the first person to find the American continent-Native Americans had been living on it for hundreds of years prior-but Columbus wasn’t the first explorer. He may have all the credit, but Vikings stepped foot in the Americas centuries before him. America was discovered by Vikings before Columbus, and early Native Americans before the Vikings; it's a confusing circle but broken down into smaller parts it becomes an easier one. The Vikings discovered America and stepped foot on it nearly five hundred years before Columbus. Natives had been living on the continent for thousands of years before, and the reason no one else is credited with the discovery is …show more content…
As previously said, that was a large impact on the world because of the sudden new products they could make or build. Columbus gets all the credit because of that. “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,” (Weiner). At the time, most news traveled by word of mouth and could wildly get messed up or re-created for added emphasis. The Vikings who settled briefly in America didn’t exactly take notes or anything. No one believed their discovery; plus they were noted as well, Vikings. Savage, bloodthirsty people who blood eagled others for sport. Vikings aren’t credited as largely as Columbus because for the longest time there wasn’t any evidence to support to the claim. Columbus was very influential to the “New World” he discovered. Maybe it wasn’t the fact that he’d publicly announced a new continent but because of that fact, afterwards the world started to change becoming “new”. Columbus opened up trade routes, put America on the map, and helped make people curious enough to leave their homes and venture to the “Great