Instead of considering, columbus as the discoverer of America, it is advised to think of him as a man who introduced Europeans of the late 15th century to the so called “New World”, and not the discoverer. Yet who discovered it? Vikings, were seafarers, mainly living in the region known as Scandinavia, in which they traded and raided from their Northern European homelands to across, Central and Eastern Europe. Facilitated by advanced sailing techniques such as observation of wind, solar time, and…
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