Which group of islands was first discovered by Columbus in 1492?
Correct answer: The Bahamas
MoodyChef92025
HipRider94798, even as a child I remember asking my teacher "how do discover a place wear people already live"She looked at me shocked and had no answer.and acted like I was being rude
HipRider94798
He's a thief and did not discover America
ChampionNymph37634
FACTCHECKER, Thank you. It is an often ignored fact that many indigenous tribes or bands were constantly at war with one another, and frequently sided with European explorers and settlers against their long time native enemies. True, those same Europeans were all too eager to exploit this fact. Pity, but true.
Arnel
America was named after the Italian mapmaker America Vespucci
Player #6852065
SlowGuacamole73561, think how much more beautiful it must have been before the past 500 years of pollution man has dumped into it.
Shellback
Should extraterrestrials ever visit our planet, we Earthlings will be treated much the same way as Columbus treated the inhabitants of the New World.
Gary
He never set foot on American soil yet is credited with discovering it when he actually discovered the Bahamas and thought it was America.
Vince in Camden
Gary, Actually ... He thought it was India. That's why it's called the "West Indies" :)
DrowsyPegasus96036
He cheated that poor sailor
TwaughtBane
And, as an aside, San Salvador also happens to be the capital if El Salvador.
Mike
Arnel, a) he was called "Amerigo ",
b) why wasn't it called "Vespuccica" as all other countries have been given the surname of the "discoverer"?
Player #120374466
Player #6852065, We all contribute to pollution. Just resolve to buy less junk especially food items in plastic containers which ends up in landfills and in the oceans
mousie4
Arnel, Amerigo Vespucci, I think
Terri
From what I understand, Christopher Columbus never sat for a photo. So any portrait of him is an assumption from the artist of what he may have looked like.
Foster
Columbus didn't discover anything. He landed where people have lived for thousands of years. He got LOST! 🤐
Player #62752956
Felipe, you’re right, Felipe. If his ships had sunk, no one in the old world to this day would be aware of the americas… 🤦🏻♂️
J
Amazing how one little question can be so controversial, all I know is that I got it right and that looking at all your comments is fascinating and funny!
Player #97184361
Hoggmeister, Yes so you decide , but if it was your family inheritance might think different eh ! ? ! ?
YSL
Gary, he thought it was Asia/India, not America.
YSL
The Taino discovered Columbus lost at sea in 1492.
Lorraine
Player Bengal Mama, I think Vince in Camden mean the vikings were the first Europeans to reach North America, nit that they were there before the indigenous peoples already there, who did originally arrive from Asia as you said.
gobledygook
Player #cbonmaui, it's not unreasonable to say that Cook discovered Hawaii in the context of European exploration. It's simply describing the fact that he alerted Europe and the rest of the world, aside from the Hawaiians, themselves, to the existence of this chain of islands.
Player Bengal Mama
Vince in Camden, then there is the theory tat native Americans came from Asia Long before any europeans.
Goose
"discovered" Bahamas, among many others which were found before Bahamas.
Player #51234707
it was hispaniola
Bianca Candy
discovering somewhere someone else lived. ok I am going to discover my neighbors house, pretend they ain't there. kmt
Vince in Camden
HipRider94798, Yes! Our Norse ancestors were here first!
Player #41342761
Gary, The Bahamas are in what is known as the Americas Americas.
Player #41342761
HipRider94798, He most certainly did.. The Bahamas are in the Americas
Holly Rose
Shellback, Since most non- terrestrials are probably highly asended, they will, in my shared opinion, will be of great comfort.
Hoggmeister
MoodyChef92025, get over it. History cannot be "Erased" or changed. Cancel culture WILL lose in the end and earn a resounding "F".
sonnybud
Shellback, apparently not they have visited numerous times, seems they're not into our climate
Player #32567393
Era Vulgaris,
Cozzy 25,
We just might! (I’m a die hard Trekkie!!) 😎
Player #32567393
Shellback,
Cozzy 25,
Not necessarily. Who’s to say that if there are people from another world, if we ever meet them all they want to do are peaceful negotiations? 😎
Laurie
Arnel, it's Amerigo Vespucci.
DkRatz72
Gary, The Bahamas are part of the North America Continent.
Panchotzin
Bahama: from Spanish "Baja mar" meaning "shallow sea"
MeulemansF
Gary, the Bahamas are also the American continent...