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RoseTrellis

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2. Who would have been next?

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 03:00 PM

Jun 10

It’s nieve to think that the continent would have not been eventually exploited, given the state of the world at the time.
England, Spain, France and the Ottoman empire were all looking to expand their influence over the globe and all were more than capable of exerting their will by force on the native Americans.
If it wasn’t Columbus, we would be celebrating a German, a Frenchman, etc who did exactly what Columbus did.

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Anyone else still pissed at Christopher Columbus? [View all] milestogo Jun 10 OP

I am pissed a Columbus's navigator Fiendish Thingy Jun 10 #1

It's my understanding that PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 10 #17

But his milquetoast navigator could have told him to keep going Fiendish Thingy Jun 10 #19

WHAT milquetoast navigator?? PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 10 #23

Shhh... Fiendish Thingy Jun 10 #24

Who would have been next? RoseTrellis Jun 10 #2

Leif Erickson came to Newfoundland in the 11th century milestogo Jun 10 #4

There's also speculation that far-ranging French and English fishermen were Vogon_Glory Jun 10 #10

Well, that's really way "off-the-books" when you cross an Ocean and then pretend you didn't. milestogo Jun 10 #16

A lot of trouble for high returns Vogon_Glory Jun 10 #20

Anyone else pissed at people who are wasting pisses on long dead people? Srkdqltr Jun 10 #3

We need to learn from the past so we don't repeat it. And each new generation needs to learn from the older one. CTyankee Jun 10 #8

I blame ships. betsuni Jun 10 #5

I blame electricmonk Jun 10 #11

. MorbidButterflyTat Jun 10 #14

When I told my coworker I discovered the Beatles in 1982 Torchlight Jun 10 #6

Columbus isn't Italian and didn't land in the continental USA AStern Jun 10 #7

Say what? aurora the great Jun 10 #12

That part of Italy was part of Spain in his day. AStern Jun 10 #15

Latest reporting on his DNA results claims he was not Italian wishstar Jun 10 #22

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire Ping Tung Jun 10 #9

Yes, of course. BannonsLiver Jun 10 #13

Because without him this continent would have PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 10 #18

I agree. European contact with the Americas wasinevitable Vogon_Glory Jun 10 #21