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We’ll if you ever watch Scott Wolter, he’s convinced that Euro’s made it to the New World way before Columbus and mixed with the locals. It’s an interesting topic.

Good grief. What rock have you been hiding under?

Have you never heard of the Vikings - beginning with Eric the Red, his son Leif and hundreds of others - who established what, over a 300 year period, became a settlement of 30,000 in Greenland = before The Little Ice Age that drove them out - most probably down the waterways to north America (LOTS of information re that) -

and Leif explored the eastern seaboard as far - as Florida 0 ALL WAY BEFORE Columbus. (1,000 to 1,300+ AD.)

Then there's Sir Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, who, with about 750 men, women and children, sailed to Nova Scotia in the late 1300's - 100 years before Columbus...

That's just to name the more documented ones.

But then, of course, Columbus never set off to 'discover' a new land. he knew both North and South America were here - he had the Zeno maps. He set off to find a shorter and safer route to the Indies and the riches from the spices.

What he DIDN'T know about was Central America being in the way. Indeed, when he ran into the islands, he at first thought he's made it to the Indies - and named the natives "Indians."

Columbus, BTW, was eventually hauled back to Spain in chains on orders of the queen.

What, that's no in the public school history books either?

And BTW, the Pilgrims did NOT dress in black and white, either.