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What is the supreme law of the land?
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Did you know?
Columbus Didn’t Discover America
To discover is to find something that no one else has ever encountered. So, to say that Columbus discovered America would be very inaccurate. He didn’t make it to America until 1492 when he was searching for a shorter route to the East Indies. But what he found instead was what we know today as the Bahamas. He assumed it was India and therefore called the natives there, Indians. The exact area he landed, he named San Salvador, which is often called the Watlings Island. Although he landed in the Bahamas, he never stepped foot on the United States’ soil. The Bahamas aren’t even U.S. Territory.
Anyway, this was in 1492, and it wasn’t the first time someone explored this new land. In 1000 AD a man named Leif Erikson and his men, known as Vikings landed in Vinland, what is now northern Canada. Which, you know, is still part of America. But if you want to get into who first landed on the U.S. soil, you can easily say it was the natives. They are believed to be Siberian who explored the area 15,000 years ago originally. This was never confirmed, but we do know that the indigenous people got there somehow.
If you need to know which European explored the mainland first, then you can credit John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) who first reached the mainland of North America though no one knows exactly where. It was likely in Canada. So who was the first non-native to touch down in the U.S.?
When you think about it, it’s all rather confusing. But does it really matter? We can’t change the past, but we can change the future! Living together peacefully as one united country with independent hearts and minds.
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