How Did Columbus Discover America

They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima maps out the proof of there being African American and Mexican descendants in the Americas before Christopher Columbus was said to discover America in the late 1400’s. Sertima expresses how the people during ancient and medieval times did not have cameras, but like everyone in present-day, they wanted to capture the world around them. In order to do so, they used clay to sculpt and represent the individuals who were there during 800 and 700 B.C. Sertima explains how to sculptures had very distinct Negro features that were even exaggerated by the Native Americans. It was explained that the NAtive Americans formulated these sculptures in those kinds of ways because they were representing Negro

The long history between Native American and Europeans are a strained and bloody one. For the time of Columbus’s subsequent visits to the new world, native culture has

I believe that the Vikings were in fact the first to discover America. The key word is “Discover” for the native Americans did not discover America, they just lived there. Also the Vikings were not very creative and named things very obviously, so why would they call the new land Newfound Land, if it was inhabited by people, it wouldn’t be new. The only reason that they don’t get credit for it is because of the things they did like attacking England. They were disliked by just about all countries, so why give them credit for discovering America?

“In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” One of the first things we learned in primary school was that Christopher Columbus discovered America, they also made us read Christopher 's Journals (1493) such as: “ They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks ' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” Here he was describing what he encountered with the “Taino indigenous peoples of Hispaniola.” However, we as students never questioned how is it Columbus “discovered” America. In his journals (1493) he states that he encountered people that lived there before he arrived, even though it wasn 't really America. The word discover is defined as “ to obtain sight or knowledge of for the first time.” There is evidence that validate Columbus did not discover America. One evidence that validates Columbus did not discover America is the inaccuracy in his studies. Columbus and his cohorts believed and

Columbus DBQ Christopher Columbus created the social image of himself as a villain. Columbus didn’t necessarily create the image of himself by himself, but it did reflect it. He never really truly realized what damage he has done to the Indian and other race populace around him. Therefore, stating that the man that discovered America is actually a villain, evidence will be provided to support it.

In the book They Came Before Columbus written by Ivan Van Sertima, chapter twelve, “Mystery of Mu-lan-pi”, there is a reoccurring theme of disproving the notion that Columbus brought over many different things and products from his expeditions to American to the Eastern parts of the world when in reality there is factual evidence that Africans made contact with America far before Columbus did. The author of this book, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, has his undergraduates degree in African languages and literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Van Sertima also worked as a journalist in Great Britain and did broadcasted to the Caribbean and Africa. With and extensive knowledge and work experience in African American Studies it is clear why he chose to wrote this book. The idea that Columbus was the first to bring things like maize from America is widely believed to be true but Van Setima saw that this was false and published They Came Before Columbus to show the facts and evidence that Columbus was not the first person to accomplish this. After writing this book Van Sertima went on to complete a master’s degree in African Studies at Rutgers University and even became a professor of African Studies at the same university. In this essay I will be going deeper into the theme and its relationship to African American history and discussing three other articles that can be related back to chapter twelve of They Came Before Columbus.

Norwegians are credited with being the first Europeans to discover North America. Live Eriksson cam to America in A.D. 1000, which was nearly five centuries before Columbus. The Norwegian immigration to America began in 1825 in which several dozen Norwegians left Stavanger headed for America on the sloop Restauration,

Indians arrived in America some 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. Archeological findings and Radiocarbon testing suggested that the prehistoric people who populated the Americas were hunters following the herds of wooly mammoths. They walked from Siberia across a land bridge into Alaska. They headed south toward warmer climates, slaughtering the mammoths as they went. As the glaciers melted, the oceans rose and covered this land bridge, creating the present-day Bering Strait and separating Alaska from Russia. By the time Christopher Columbus arrived, they were millions of what might be called First Americans or Amerindians occupying the two continents of Americas. The first noted documentation of the Beringia theory of the peopling of North America was by Jose de

Columbus his whole life, but he survived the boat crash. Why this event in history

In conclusion I would like to point out that, Ellin (2008) explained that when Horace Miner in 1956, was using hyperbole as well as rhetorical misreading to defamiliarized his own culture in this essay Body ritual among the Nacirema. “Nacirema is American spelled backwards”. He exposed an obsession with the body that contributed to masochistic tendencies including annual visit to ‘holy men (dentist); and weekly head-baking by women (using hair dryers); lacerating the face with sharp instrument by men (shaving); and he discusses the ritual fast to make fat people thin” (“Life support: Nacirema redux”). Through this entire scenario, my perspective is that Miner was not prepared for change, growth nor evolution.

Who really discovered America? There are many different theories on who discovered America. If I were to ask you who would you say? Some say Vikings other say Christopher Columbus. Others have other theories. I think the ancient Polynesian were the true founders of America.

When most people think of who discovered America, they usually think of Columbus, right? Almost everyone has learned the rhyme “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen-hundred-ninety-two” in school. But was Columbus really the one that discovered America? Short answer: no, he wasn’t. The only thing he discovered was that he was a huge asshole.

I initially thought that the only ancient cultures in North America were the Native Americans in the Mesa Verde area, or the Aztecs and Mayans in Mexico. I was completely unaware of the thought of Canada having ancient cultures. I don’t know why, I just haven’t thought about. So, once I was searching the Internet for an artifact, when I found this one from Canada, I knew it was the one I wanted to research. I didn’t realize that the Norse were the first Europeans to actually set up a settlement on the North American continent. I always thought it was Columbus, but according to Vinland Archaeology, the Norse came over from Greenland and Iceland roughly 500 years prior to

The topic I researched was on the Norse’s exploration to the west and the discovery of Greenland and North America. I found this topic interesting and decided to research it because not many people know that the Vikings had visited North America at all. One of the most common myths in America is that Columbus was the first to discover America. But it is much more likely the Vikings were actually first. As stated by Kirsten Seaver in her book about the Vikings she states, “Around the year 1000, the Norse Greenlanders became the first Europeans to reach parts of North America.” Columbus had not arrived until around 1500. The Vikings first traveled to Greenland where they settled and from there eventually made several expeditions to North America.

The tales of Viking lore never cease to captivate historical onlookers or passerby. In fact, for centuries as seen in the enumerated volumes of fiction, film, theater, popular culture has demonstrated a steady fixation for the feats, practices and legend of Norseman. Accordingly, the search was on to better understand this tribe of land and Sea, never expecting that in the process, we would unravel mysteries to the earliest inhabitants of North America. In Newfoundland, Canada, at the tip of the Great Pacific Peninsula, evidence of 11th Century Viking settlement was discovered when the excavated remains of wood-framed peat-turf buildings (similar to those found in Greenland and Iceland) and a smithy were uncovered on a shoreline-hillside, marking the oldest settlement in North America occupied by Europeans.