Question

The discovery of America by Christopher Columbus had a surprise element? REASON? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

because

Explanation:

Answer 2

Explanation:

Even if we ignore the millions of native Americans who lived in the continent before Columbus "discovered" it, even if we ignore other civilizations (eg: Polynesians, Phoenicians, Chinese, Arabs, etc.) who might have been to the American continent...

We still have the Vikings, who have actually established settlements in the Americas centuries before Columbus set sail. And this position is widely accepted, so why is Columbus still considered the one who "discovered" America?

Columbus is traditionally (and indeed still) credited with the discovery of the Americas for a number of reasons, some dubious but others quite legitimate. First of all, we must qualify this discovery as discovery by Old World people. Clearly, the original "discovery" by the human species was some 40,000 years ago by the ancestors of the indigenous populations of North and South America, but given that this original settlement was well within the pre-historical period, and that there has probably been no contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World (specifically Asia) in the last 10,000 years, it might be said that we implicitly mean a "re-discovery" (within the historical era) of the Americas.