Columbus Did Not Discover the America

The question of who exactly discovered the Americas is widely debated. What historians do when they ask this important question is actually misunderstand or in a single hyphened word mis-define the words in the question:

Who exactly discovered the Americas?

When people ask this question who discovered this place people ask who actually found the land and concieved the knowledge this place was a new land.

When we ask who discovered the Americas historians seek centuries before Columbus taking it as who saw the Americas. What people really want to know is who discovered the Americas and while doing actively causing the Americas to become as it is today, becoming widely known as as a continent.

Now knowing the definitive definition of what we are actually asking we can answer it correctly (finally!).

Way to go Amerigo!

Amerigo Vespucci actually knew and realized that this new place was actually a new place. So he discovered it.

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