[T. P. Pole]

In the continuing series of rewriting history to exclude white Europeans, the author fails to mention one thing - when Columbus "discovered" America, it stayed discovered.

Nobody else had to come along and re-discover it later.

[dark_lord]

In the continuing series of rewriting history to exclude white Europeans, the author fails to mention one thing - when Columbus "discovered" America, it stayed discovered. Nobody else had to come along and re-discover it later.

Yes. However, he had a huge advantage. The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450. There is evidence of other European explorers before him, but when everything had to be scribed by hand, there was limited circulation of the information. The discovery of Columbus was publicized.