The leftists hate Columbus. they fail to realize that the New World would still have been found a few years later by Pedro Ãlvares Cabral.
My memory's a bit rusty, but I remember hearing that China went from a sea-faring nation to one more land-based due to a particular dynasty. I wonder if they'd have gotten here first, and established a solid hold on the Americas had they not retreated from the seas during this dynasty. Of course, it could all be poppycock. Again, my memory is rusty.
I wonder if the Chinese would have allowed any natives to survive.
“The leftists hate Columbus. they fail to realize that the New World would still have been found a few years later by Pedro Ãlvares Cabral.”
It had already been found 492 years earlier, by Lief Eriksson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson
Actually anther may have been first, a fellow named Bjarni Herjolfsson but that would have been a near impossible name for a country or a place.