ElHeim
ElHeim t1_ixvgzjd wrote
Reply to comment by bafangoolNJ in Researchers in Galicia open 15th-century tomb to test Columbus link theory. Explorer is generally believed to have been born in Italy in 1451 but some argue he was in fact born in Spain by ArtOak
For additional perspective, there's also been the claim that a famous Chinese captain "discovered" the New World some 70 years earlier.
But it's all irrelevant for the same reason: the Chinese were about to get totally focused on themselves, they didn't share the discovery. Actually, if it happened, they actively suppressed all knowledge of it.
No further contact, no spreading of the knowledge = no impact.
It's like when you invent some new device. if you sit on it and someone else creates the same thing, then patents it, they get all the credit.
ElHeim t1_ixvgdt4 wrote
Reply to comment by Penitent_Exile in Researchers in Galicia open 15th-century tomb to test Columbus link theory. Explorer is generally believed to have been born in Italy in 1451 but some argue he was in fact born in Spain by ArtOak
They should read a bit more about his biography before feeling that heart-warming feeling.
ElHeim t1_ixvg0l9 wrote
Reply to comment by Pecos_Bill91 in Researchers in Galicia open 15th-century tomb to test Columbus link theory. Explorer is generally believed to have been born in Italy in 1451 but some argue he was in fact born in Spain by ArtOak
Same Crown, not same "country". Those concepts were largely disconnected back then. Think of the current Commonwealth: same head of state (whoever is the King/Queen back at the UK), but a collection of independent countries. Not exactly the same concept, but close enough.
ElHeim t1_ixvht0d wrote
Reply to comment by JMKraft in Researchers in Galicia open 15th-century tomb to test Columbus link theory. Explorer is generally believed to have been born in Italy in 1451 but some argue he was in fact born in Spain by ArtOak
>Most of the names he gave to new found land were names of villages close to his hometown of Cuba
Good attempt, Columbus named the island "Juana" (or Ioanna, or whatever at that time).