What would have happened if America was not discovered by Columbus?
81476
technically Amerigo vespucci (more than likely spelled wrong) was here before columbus. if one wants to be exact...native americans were already here. = )
116032
Unfortunately,most Americans can't find America on a globe.
986596
Yes.\n\nIf we don't allow some aspects of it, our behaviour and decisions will be guided by speculation and superstition.\n\nIt's like the biological equivalent of flat-earth thinking.  "Don't sail West across the great ocean because you'll fall off the edge of the earth."  As it turned out Columbus didn't and the rest, as they say, is history.\n\nI'm sure a lot of people have suffered in the process of exploration, but unless we continue to explore and take risks human existence is doomed.\n\nDangerous knowledge is better than blind superstition.
1037680
I think specialdark answered this one quite nicely. Columbus gets all the accolades because he was a white, Christian, European male of the species. The fact that people of another race had already been living here for at least 10,000 years is thus made a moot point. As a student and scholar of History, I must confess that I am not always proud of how historians have recorded such "discoveries" and other assorted feats of humankind. Revisionist history can be quite nauseating, even "politically correct," but the simple fact is that Columbus did not "discover" America.
1041912
Correct ... there were already lots of people in North America when Columbus got here, including the Inuit who probably crossed the Bering Sea from Asia on the ice bridge thousands of years before Columbus.
1034071
Actually, it was Christopher Columbus who "discovered" Jamaica, though it was already there and inhabited.
974733
There's still disagreement about just where Columbus first saw the new world and set foot upon its shores.  No one knows for sure.\n\nHere are some sites that may be helpful to you.  Best of luck.
363500
Considering Columbus never really made it to America, I would have to say Lewis and Clark would have to be the pick of the two you mentioned.  Columbus got as far as the Bahamas and stopped. Hence his new found world, but never really made it to America.
540791
that's a good question, it almost became that way back in the beginning, I thought about this one for a bit and came up with this scenario; After the revolution the thirteen colonies would have made huge land grabs in their own interests,Everything east of the Mississippi would belong to the original thirteen with Georgia being the largest( the colony of Georgia would have taken almost all of the deep south just by the fact of her location alone) West of the Mississippi would be 4 or 5 large countries with Texas and California being the largest,The early 1800's would have been near constant warfare as countries fought over who would be the big dog. Spain and France would be easily tossed out with Georgia, Carolina, and Virginia taking the bulk of their land, The smaller northern colonies would form some sort of confederation to control a British presence in Canada,      Today we would probably look something like this; There would be probably a dozen different countries in North America today, each with a form of government similar to what we have now, some more conservative, some more liberal, a NATO type of confederation would exist for mutual defense and economic needs. I could see Texas, California and Georgia being three of the worlds top economic and military powers , as for what the world would look like, that's anyone's guess
659091
It slavery never happen America wouldn't exist today. They probably would be ruled by Indians or Mexican or something. The slightest thing can completely change History. And you know they would be in Africa.
510150
the question is- what if there wasn't?
59719
America was not "discovered" since it already inhabitants.
375300
Asian peoples who later formed the native american tribes were the first.  hundreds of years later the vikings (anglo saxons) also arrived to explore the Americas.  Hundreds of years after that in 1492, A spanish Explorer Christopher Columbus, was paid by the Queen of Portugal to find a new route to India.  He choose to sail west rather than east and landed in what is now South America.  He then went on to India.  After Columbus returned to Portugal, he reported what he found to the Queen.  After the news of his adventures spread Spain and Portugal both began sending expiditions to the Americas and formed a few colonies in South and Central America.  \n\nIn the late 16th Century, France and Britain were exploring North America and Britain formed the James town settlement.  The first British Colony in the Americas.  France was also sending convicts to work the land in eastern Canada.  \n\nDuring the 17th century, many British and a few Dutch groups came to the New World for religious freedom.  By the early 18th century young British men were braving the new world in hopes of making their fortunes and some adventurous intellectuals also made the journey.  \n\nIt was not until the 19th century that significant numbers of non-Brits (Eastern Europeans, Italians, Germans, etc.) came to the United States.
203405
NO. America did not exist in Christ's time.
77757
This may sound sick, but maybe a gladiator exhibition at the Coliseum in Rome. Have you seen the movie Gladiator? I also would have loved to be on the first trip to the moon or on Christopher Columbus's first trip to the Americas. It's kind of sad that at this stage in history we think we know everything. I guess there are always other planets and biological discoveries, but somehow those don't equate to discovering the old "new frontier."
631440
The Ancient Greeks knew the world was round.  Their work in mathematics and geography allowed them to calculate the approximate curvature and circumference of the Earth.  The Romans also knew the world was round.  So much of the information from the Classical world was destroyed either during the burning of the library at Alexandria or during the many purges and book-burnings of the Dark Ages.  Much more information was hidden by the Church and forbidden.  Both the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration were about a return to the enlightened times of Classical Europe.  Christopher Columbus theorized that the Earth was not flat, and attempted to sail to Asia in 1492.  He thought he had reached Asia, but it turns out that the Earth was much larger than expected.  He simply re-discovered the Western Hemisphere.
1168160
yes, definitely. The New World did need to be discovered.  It was fine on its own.