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Originally Posted by CosmicWonder
The vikings were before Columbus. I agree with Native Spirit that the people living in that place were the first ones. It’s kind of twisted
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Lots of groups found the America's before Columbus.
Asian's crossed the Bearing Land Bridge as long as 15,000 to 18,000 years ago.
Vikings had coastal colonies on the shores of New Foundland and Labrador Canada as much as 1000 years ago.
Sailors from Indo-polynesia crossed the Pacific ocean and settled on the western coast of south America between 800 and 1000 years ago , moving up the coast into central and North America ..... research has shown that modern native Americans carry that Indo-pacific DNA.
While Columbus was by no means the first here, his discovery is still extremely significant as the first European during the "golden age of discovery" to find and map the new world and to set up trade routes that are used to this day.
While I offer no excuse's for European bad behavior with indigenous peoples it literally amounts to a technologically advanced civilization coming across a stone age society and history is replete with examples of the more advanced group winning out over the primitive one.
This is why I think all these folks who just can't wait for aliens to discover earth and introduce themselves are nuts!
It will be one more example of what happens when a vastly more technologically developed society (alien's with faster then light travel technology) comes into contact with a primitive species (that would be us!)
But the nuts who want to meet aliens say.....if they're sooo advanced they would be all evolved like and have learned to be real nice!
Yeah sure! There's absolutely no guarantee they'd be nice!... None at all! And in fact probably not! And could literally be the end of the human species
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