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Who really discovered America ?

Kasidit Piyamataya M. 2/1 No.1


Over five hundred years ago. Christopher Columbus landed in the America. Native Americans already inhibited the land and they had been there for a long time before Columbus. Now we are starting to question wheather or not he should be given credit for discovering America. (http://www. Oppapers.com//Sample:extamt definition essay html.17/02/ 2012) Christopher Columbus (31 October 1451-20 May 1506) was an explorer,colonizer,and navigator. He was born in The Republic of Genoa,in what is today northweasten Italy. His proposal was to reach the East India by sailing westward. Instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, He landed in the Bahamas (San Salvador),coast of Columbia,Venezuala and Central America in the later. (http://www. Wikipedia; Christopher Columbus. 17/02/2012) Columbus wrote in his journal whem he landed on the new land. Then he met the Native Americans and was very friendly to them. I want the natives to develop a friendly attitude toward us because I know that they are a people who can be made free and converted to our Holy Faith more by love than by force Reed Irvine,chairman,and Joe Goulden,director of the media analysis for Accuracy in Media, state in the acticle (History Should Continue to Acknowledge Columbus as a Discoverer The presence of the North American Comtinent had been know to the persons living there for centuries before arrival. But Columbus, and those who followed him,recognized the significance of the New World.) Arthur Schlesinger, historian and two time Pulitzer Prize winner supports in his article entitled (Was America a mistake? Columbus just did what was in his heart. He was a sailor and wanted to find a way to India. So he thought that by sailing west he might be able to reach India quicker than sailing around Africa. He had not sailed west surely someone else would have, but it was Columbus who landed in America. He was the one who had the instinct and ambition to sail west.) (http://www.Oppapers.com//sample:extended-definition-essay html. 17/02/2012) Though Columbus was not the first explorer to reach the America, his voyages led to contact with Europe and America. That had happening a great period in the new world and impact the historical development from the past to the present. Therefore, he should be given credit for discovering with his accompishments and still be known as the one who discovered America.(http://www.en:wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher Columbus.17/02/2012)

Bibliography Christopher Columbus. Retrieved 17 February 2012, from . (http://www. Oppapers.com//Sample:extamt definition essay html.17/02/2012) Christopher Columbus. Retrieved 17 February 2012, from (http://www. Wikipedia; Christopher Columbus. 17/02/2012) Christopher Columbus. Retrieved 17 February 2012, from (http://www.en:wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher Columbus. 17/02/2012)

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