To: blam
I think a larger point can be made. While the vikings certainly landed in Canada, and while it is conceivable that others from the Old World encountered the New World at various times, they changed nothing. Columbus changed everything.
3 posted on
11/21/2005 11:44:37 AM PST by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: Alter Kaker
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Columbus changed everything.--
--truly the most important man of the millenium--
4 posted on
11/21/2005 11:46:56 AM PST by
rellimpank
(urbanites don' t understand the cultural deprivation of not being raised on a farm:NRABenefactor)
To: Alter Kaker
His timing was better. He landed a few decades after the printing press.
16 posted on
11/21/2005 12:24:09 PM PST by
twigs
To: Alter Kaker
. . . they changed nothing. Columbus changed everything.Reminds me of the guy who invents a neat machine but does nothing with it. Then a businessman comes along and makes a commercial success of it - and gets the glory.
20 posted on
11/21/2005 1:48:08 PM PST by
Oatka
(Hyphenated-Americans have hyphenated-loyalties -- Victor Davis Hanson)
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