![]() ![]() This coastal city saw a continual influx of sailors from distant lands, and you know what sailors can do. This sealed the connection.īut aside from descriptions of syphilis-like lesions by Hippocrates, many researchers believe that there was a syphilis outbreak in, of all places, a 13th-century Augustinian friary in the English port of Kingston upon Hull. Perhaps by coincidence, an outbreak of syphilis occurred in Naples in 1494 during a French invasion, just two years after Columbus' return. The ancient Greeks describe lesions rather similar to that from syphilis. Yet syphilis likely existed for millennia in Europe, as well, but simply wasn't well understood. Syphilis was presented in pre-Columbus America. that's District of Columbia, not District of Cabot.ģ. Hence we have the capital, Washington, D.C. So the American colonialists instead turned to Columbus as their hero, not England's Cabot. Giovanni Caboto, another Italian) "discovered" Newfoundland in England's name around 1497 and paved the way for England's colonization of most of North America. So why does the United States celebrate the guy who thought he found a nifty new route to Asia and the lands described by Marco Polo? This is because the early United States was fighting with England, not Spain. He never got close to what is now called the United States. On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America. ![]() What Columbus "discovered" was the Bahamas archipelago and then the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Until his death he claimed to have landed in Asia, even though most navigators knew he didn't. If Columbus discovered America, he himself didn't know. And let's ignore that whole Leif Ericson voyage to Greenland and modern-day Canada around 1000 C.M.E. ![]() Yes, let's ignore the fact that millions of humans already inhabited this land later to be called the Americas, having discovered it millennia before. His crew wasn't nervous about falling off the Earth. The Columbus flat-earth myth perhaps originated with Washington Irving's 1828 biography of Columbus there's no mention of this before that. ![]()
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