Columbus Discovery Debate

maybe because Northern America was a bovine continent when the europeans took it.

It is like when people talk about the discovery of america. America wasn't discovered with Columbus. A civilization met other existing ones.

That's what indigenous people in the Americas thought before the Europeans came.

Well, it was a discovery, but just for Europe. American natives discovered Europe as well.

So Columbus didn't discover America too, because there were at least few civilizations living there already. All continents (except Antarctica) have their indigenous human population, but discovery is often used from the perspective of western civilization. It's only a matter of the point of view.

The Europeans showing up is part of history. And the horse is one of the things which gave Europeans a huge advantage over the native populations here. Hence, I, a descendant of Europeans, am writing this to you from the Americas.

The Americas were never "discovered" -- the myriad people living across the Americas certainly knew it existed. The land, and the people inhabiting them, were conquered.

Columbus was a particularly unsavoury individual whose instinct was to sell the Taino natives he encountered as slaves, but it is difficult to imagine a scenario where the inevitable large scale contact between the Old and the New Worlds would not have resulted in calamitous declines in the native population of the Americas who had no resistance to smallpox and other Old World pathogens, no matter the nature of the intial contact. Even without Columbus, it would have been a matter of time before

A discovery doesn't have to imply that no living being knew about said thing/ place. It can imply only that the person or the group of people the person is from learns about this new thing. At some point in time nobody in Europe had definite proof of how to get to America. You can call "europeans learning how to get to America" something else other than "discovered America", but what phrasing should one use instead?To make the point, literally nothing can be clas

Wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas