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Why are the sailors who first braved the Atlantic so often ignored?

Long before Columbus crossed the ocean in 1492, the Phoenicians had discovered the Azores, and by the year 1000 Norse men and women were eking out an existence in Greenland

7 September 2024

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Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus John Haywood

Head of Zeus, pp.5609, 30

It is easy to assume that there is not much to be said about the history of the Atlantic before 12 October 1492, when Christopher Columbus reached the Bahamas. In 2005, the Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn published a little book entitled Atlantic History: Concept and Contours which said absolutely nothing about what happened before Columbus, whom he barely mentioned.

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