Everybody got to North America before Columbus, who didn’t get here at all.
Hah! I beat Columbus.
My peoples came here in 1968 on a 707.
The islands he got to are considered part of the North American continent.
Lots of folks got to the Americas before Columbus BUT it was the Spanish, zealous after a 700 year holy war with Muslims, who came to change the native for Jesus! They really impacted the new world and the whole world! New world things to Europe (imagine Italian cooking without Tomatoes?) New world things to Asia (Imagine Chinese food without cabbage?) It was a historic sharing of Cultures. All others just visited and did a little trade (Carthage for cocaine to sell to Egypt) Some new ideas were exchanged but no real attempt to evangelize and change the Native People like super Catholic Spain.