COLUMBUS DAY!
Columbus was a navigator, who plyed the Tradewinds before longitude was accurately figured out.
It used to be General thought that the oceans were an obstacle to discovering other places. Well, it’s turned out to be a bit different than that theory. These days it is generally accepted that the oceans were not an obstacle to discovering other areas around the globe but rather, a super highway. The Berbers were Mariners who sailed the coasts of North and South America, the Mediterranean, and the coast of Africa. The Vikings certainly were here and tens of thousands of years before that Asians came down the west coast and further to South America and established colonies and maybe even tribes in those areas. Man is an inherently traveled being. And have been on the trail for millennia, the only Association that this country really has with Columbus was he was one of the first Europeans with a PR machine and a printing press to record his exploits and disseminate his travel journals. That is why he was not assigned a place in obscurity. And all had to do with printing press and dissemination of the printed word.