Columbus is often wrongly considered the first European person to have discovered the Americas. This idea is wrong for many reasons. For example, the Caribbean is not on the American mainland and Columbus only found the mainland in 1498 Also, the first European to find America was the Viking Leif Erikson, around 1000 AD.[2][3] Finally, people do not agree that either Erikson or Columbus "discovered" America. Native Americans had been living there for thousands of years before them. These earlier discoverers did not change the world as Columbus did.- Aici scrie despre cum christofor a descoperit america
