Nobody can say that I don't learn, by government example!
In school, I learned that Christopher Columbus discovered the New World and claimed it, in the name of Spain. Disregarding the likelihood that earlier explorers were here before him, no teacher ever explained to me how one goes about “ discovering ” an occupied continent and then claiming it. North America had already been populated for thousands of years, by sophisticated humans with a variety of cultures spread throughout the whole continent. Europeans arrogantly said that they weren’t really... Sign in to see full entry.