True... I’m not an expert on who discovered America, but if some old maps are correct, it might be discovered a long time ago. That said, I’m glad Columbus discovered America.
Who discovered America?
In reality:
Some people in Northwest Siberia, at the dawn of time when all humans were much more closely related then today, before we evolved into distinct races, chasing game in a continuously desperate struggle to stay alive. They walked across the Bering Sea, which had no water due to Climate Change, into what we now call Alaska.
My theory about this was these people were exactly the same as us—meaning human beings/homo sapiens—so were as intelligent as we are now minus all our learning and technology. At some point they figured out how to make boats so they could fish and hunt the tasty sea mammals up and down the coast. Eventually, they spread further and further South, taking the whole clan to better hunting grounds. Past were Bray lives today and beyond the ice.
But we’ll never really know because all the places they lived along the Pacific coast are under water due to more Climate Change 12,000 years ago.
So, 11,500 years later, The Spanish expedition under Columbus came here, and the Europeans never stopped coming. So now here we all are, along with Africans, Asians and the same descendants of those Siberians!
Columbus brought us—and the world—all together.