History or His-story?

I don't know if it's true are not. I also was taught that Columbus discovered America but when I got older I read somewhere that Columbus was not the first one to land in America, I forget who suppose to be the first one. It would be interesting to find out if what your professor said was true or not, they have studied all this kind of stuff so most likely it's true.

hi clarkbody, Your professor was right when he told you that Christopher coulombs did not set out for USA but for India. The king of spain authorized him to find a new and short way to India as Indian in those days was a big center of trade and all European countries traded with India for spices,pearls and gold and other things. Unfortunately the ships of Coloumbs lost their way and after months of wandering in the sea they reached the coast of America. He was over joyed and thought he has reached India. he sailed in 1492 and when he saw local Americans there he thought they are Indians and when he realized he he found a new world he called them Red Indians. here you can check an eye witness account of the journey http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/columbus.htm

History generally favors the country of the author. I have heard the same story you relate about Columbus. There is a good chance its correct. I would like to know what Japanese students learn in school, regarding the dropping of the Atomic Bombs in WW2. I would bet the American reasons for the bombing, and the presentation is completely different than the Japanese. As I said before," What you read in your History books depends entirely on where, and when, you live!"

History is his story! The title is very interesting I think.May be someone`s history is someone`s story ,just a story,is not it? Many thing happened long long ago ,and it has several versions .Nobody can explain it clearly.Nobody can know which version is true .And nobody want to choose which is the most believably.May be one time we hear a story like this ,we will speak loudly "oh,that unbelievably!"

Unfortunately, we dont' have a time machine so that we can proove who is right and who is wrong about history! we can only trust on the written facts by our ancestors. What I know is that Columbus was trying to find India and accidently ended up in America and that is why we call native Americans Red indians

Apart from the fact that Columbus was far from the first, the rest of what your teacher told you appears to be true. I'm actually surprised that this came as a shock to you, it's been known for half a century at least. Some feminist academic writers, on the other hand, refer to history as denying and hiding Herstory, with considerable justification to my mind. It was the female ruled Sumerian civilisation that invented writing, for instance, some 7000 years BCE. Most history taught at junior levels is questionable and needlessly simplistic, since educators seem to believe that children are incapable of dealing with the complexities of actual history. Lash