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| NFUN 12/04/20 11:59:47 PM #32: | norenxaq posted... ye: discovering the new world was not inevitable. esp considering it took a few years after columbus' voyage to realise he didn't land near indiaIt totally was (and your second point is completely irrelevant). Columbus wasn't special. His motivations were not unique, with the rest of the world unsympathetic to what he hoped to achieve. He wasn't even the first European to find the new world. You really don't think anybody else would've explored the Atlantic just to see what was there if he hadn't? Explorers *explore*, even if they were profit motivated. Hell, Columbus got there only a couple of decades after the technology even *existed* to travel across the ocean Columbus's main attribute that led to his accomplishment was being bad at units --- You shine, and make others shine just by being near them. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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