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- It was in 1492 when Christopher Columbus first set foot on American soil. He set out from Europe in search of a shorter way to Asia, but instead, he discovered the Americas.
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Feb 24, 2022 · However, Native American tribes still share stories of the mysterious black-skinned man who discovered more of America than Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon, and Leif Erikson combined.
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Aug 10, 2018 · In 1920, a renowned American historian and linguist, Leo Weiner of Harvard University, in his book, Africa and the discovery of America, explained how Columbus noted in his journal that Native Americans had confirmed that “black skinned people had come from the south-east in boats, trading in gold-tipped spears.”.
Feb 5, 2024 · What Really Happened? It was in 1492 when Christopher Columbus first set foot on American soil. He set out from Europe in search of a shorter way to Asia, but instead, he discovered the Americas. Columbus Day is celebrated annually on the second Monday in October in honor of the man who gained fame as the discoverer of the Americas.
- First Americans: 16,000-35,000 years ago. Almost all Native American tribes – Sioux, Comanche, Iroquois, Cherokee, Aztec, Maya, Quechua, Yanomani, and dozens of others – speak similar languages.
- Na-Dene: 3,000-8,000 BC. Another group, the Na-Dene, crossed the Bering Sea to Alaska around 5,000 years ago, although other studies suggest they settled the Americas as long as 10,000 years ago.
- Eskimo-Aleut: 2,000-2,500 BC. The Inuit descend from an earlier migration: that of speakers of the Eskimo-Aleut languages. These are distinct from other Native American languages, and might even be distantly related to Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian.
- Inuit: AD 900. Just before the Vikings, the Inuit people travelled from Siberia to Alaska in skin boats. Hunting whales and seals, living in sod huts and igloos, they were well adapted to the cold Arctic Ocean, and skirted its shores all the way to Greenland.
The Black Plague, 1348 The Flagellants Attempt to Repel the Black Death, 1349 The Battle of Agincourt, 1415 The Sack of Constantinople, 1453 Columbus Discovers America, 1492 America Sends Syphilis to Europe, 1493 The Death of Pope Alexander VI, 1503 Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel The Death of Magellan, 1521 An Audience with Queen Mary I ...
Oct 11, 2021 · They take Tom, Dick or Harry's statement that on October 21, 1492 Columbus discovered North America - when in fact he did nothing of the kind on that date or any other - and then they proceed...
Nov 25, 2020 · Instead of mistakenly giving all the credit to Christopher Columbus as history once did, we can learn about the explorers and settlers who sailed the seven seas to make Black history.
