There is much evidence to prove other seafaring explorers had landed on the shores of the Americas long before Cristóbal Colón. Those who had come before him lacked either ambition, ability or imagination to take full advantage of the importance of their voyage and were tossed to the historical sidelines. The Europeans assumed the Americas were an undeveloped wasteland filled with savages. The people of the Americas had crossed over the Bering Land Bridge almost 20,000 years ago. They came in several waves and when they settled themselves into their new surroundings, they began to develop cultures as refined as any of those in Europe and they built cities and empires rivaling any of those in Europe. The assumptions of savages was false and became the foundation for the greatest displacement and subjugation of human beings ever witnessed.
