| tabsina said: Wasn't america discovered in an attempt to prove the world was round? |
No. America was not discovered by Columbus. He landed on an island and this was 100s of years after Europeans 1st came to North America and 1000s of years after Asians came to North America. There are some that also think Africans came to North America before Columbus did.
People did not think the world was flat in Columbus' time. See what was already said on this thread for more info, "and Columbus' great radical idea was actually the completely erronous belief that the world's diameter was about a third of it's actual size"
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