'More recent views of Columbus have been critical of his colonization and treatment of natives.[106][107][108] Among reasons for this criticism is the treatment and disappearance of the native Taino people of Hispaniola, where Columbus began a rudimentary tribute system for gold and cotton.' Wikipedia says. that happened, and also, he didn't actually discover the Americas.
Pretty shocking, too, after we have been taught for years:
"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." and he did, but he wasn't the first. let that sink in for a moment.
Leif Erikson was. Leif was the son of Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland.
he was probably born in Iceland and grew up in Greenland. Leif had two sons that we know of, thorgis and Thorkell. "Leif and his crew travelled from Greenland to Norway in CE 999. Blown off course to the Hebrides and staying for much of the summer, he arrived in Norway and became a hirdman of King Olaf Tryggvason. He also converted to Christianity and was given the mission of introducing the religion to Greenland.[15][19] The Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, both thought to have been written around 1200,[20] contain different accounts of the voyages to Vinland.[21][22] The two only known strictly historical mentions of Vinland are found in the work of Adam of Bremen c. 1075 and in the Book of Icelanders compiled c. 1122 by Ari the Wise.[23] According to the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif apparently saw Vinland for the first time after being blown off course on his way to introduce Christianity to Greenland.[19]"
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