We've been praising the wrong whitey for discovering the native's land this whole time. It appears that indeed the Norse hit it first. Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03972-8
Native Americans are like ... "yeah, and?" But seriously, wasn't this already known that Vikings landed here before Columbus?
It was speculated but now they are claiming to have evidence by dating trees to a solar event, that were chopped with iron tools.
The First Houston Astro lands in North America, and looks around for a place to settle....Gurriel descendant.
Yup, here on history.com - By that time, the Vikings had established settlements in present-day North America as early as 1,000 A.D. I think it's newsworthy only because schools do not educate their children properly and it's so easy in common expression - so also in the media - to just say Columbus discovered America that people forget what happened prior. I actually started to wonder about the historical accuracy ever since I finished Vikings the TV show, since in the final few episodes they are in Newfoundland, Canada. I never knew so it's good this is in the news, but it is not "new".
You start calling **** Columbous Day and you'll piss off every Italian from the Midwest to the Northeast.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff you'll miss out on if your "learning" stops at high school, sadly. The world learns more and continues learning, so you find interesting things as you go on in life that make you say "I didn't know that" or "that's not how I learned it". lol. The Vikings were a pretty bad-ass group that weren't just barbaric goons. There's historical evidence of them possibly doing trade with the Middle East and/or China. At least I guess it was trade and not plundering.
Here in Canada, they have been teaching kids that the Norse came to the Americas first for some time now. Columbus is basically an irrelevant figure. I think they teach kids about Columbus but primarily to describe how terrible the Spanish were. And given that its Canada, most of the focus is on the British and French, rather than the Spanish.
The "blood Thirsty" Vikings . .. . . were far far nicer that KILL THEM ALL - RAPE AND MAIM THEM ALL Columbus Rocket River
In the Saga of Leif Erikson he sailed west from Greenland and landed in Vinland where he spent the winter. Vinland has been considered to be somewhere in North America. Likely Newfoundland. What the latest findings are scientific evidence for the Leif Erikson story.
I'd delete that If I were you, that's pretty much the equivalent of the n-word for people named Nick.
