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Everyone recognizes that many people were in America long before Columbus. The Asiatic peoples who became Native Americans were certainly the first, tens of thousands of years ago. Also Norse expeditions to North America, starting with Bjarni Herjolfsson in 986, are well established historically.

Even though Columbus wasn’t the first, his discovery (or re-discovery, if you prefer) is rightly regarded as the most historically important, and will continue to be That is because, unlike the others, Columbus inaugurated permanent large scale two-way commerce between the Old World and the New. Previous discoveries were so obscure that almost no one in either hemisphere was aware of the other hemisphere’s existence prior to Columbus.

But after Columbus, everyone knew.The “Admiral of the Ocean Sea,” unlike his predecessors, changed the world.

Pickering, Keith A. “Who Really Discovered America?” The Columbus Navigation  Homepage. Keith A. Pickering, 2010. Web. 8 Oct. 2010. 
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