Who Are We?
About This Book
1 Indigenous America First Nations The Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, is often credited as the person who “discovered” the Americas. In 1492, Columbus broke with European sea-going tradition and sailed west from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean under the theory that the earth was round and that he could therefore reach the Far East by sailing west. When he ran into the island that became known as Hispaniola (shared today by the Dominican Republic and Haiti), he thought he had landed some
| Category | general |
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| Subject | Society and culture: general, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 5 |
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| Institution | Utah State University |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |