Happy Columbus Day!

[Irish Jack O'Brian]

Speculative histories are fun in science fiction, but I personally am uncomfortable defending the historical actions of someone like Columbus by making up a worse scenario in a what-if world. Not sure this is the proper venue to vent on historical methodologies.

[Lallans]

Speculative histories are fun in science fiction, but I personally am uncomfortable defending the historical actions of someone like Columbus by making up a worse scenario in a what-if world. Not sure this is the proper venue to vent on historical methodologies.

Yeah well if this comment was regarding my last post on this thread, all of the theory I quoted (except, possibly, for St Brendan's account) is part of modern archoleogical theory and while no scientific theory should ever be considered proven, this one is strongly supported by European stone age tools and skeletons that have been dug up all across North American, as well as that touchstone of our age, DNA evidence. If memory serves, my first exposure to all this was via the National Geographic Society.
And if you want to know how socialism works, look at the 20th century. 100 million killed and all we got was North Korea.