America West Flight Funds

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Admin
America West Flight Funds

America West Flight Funds

Christopher Columbus (c.1451–1506) is widely recognized as the man who discovered America. He can be portrayed as a heroic explorer who sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered America, and he can also be portrayed as a slave trader and treasure scout, who mistook America for the Indies.

Did Christopher Columbus Really Discover America?

About 500 years before Christopher Columbus first landed on an island in the Bahamas, Leif Ericson (c.970–c.1020), a Norse viking, landed at the northern tip of Newfoundland, an island off Canada. According to the Norse sagas (written versions of oral history), Ericson attempted to settle a land west of Greenland, which he called Vinland.

Several groups of people, sometimes referred to collectively as First Nations or Native Americans, inhabited the Americas at the times when both Ericson and Columbus encountered the land. The First Nations peoples continue to inhabit the Americas in the present day, are known by many names (Arawak, Cherokee, Nimíipuu, Navaho, etc.), and each nation has its own stories about the discovery and colonization of America by European explorers.