it has also been suggested but not proven that the name came from john ameryk who financed cabots voyage, the vespucci theory is probably the real way it got the name though
@@twix3542 it is tought Cabot named his discovery after Richard Amerike as a thank you for funding voyager. Intriguingly, Amerike’s coat of arms features stars and stripes similar to the US flag - a design which pre-dates George Washington's connection with the continent by 300 years (whose family arms had a similar motif). Can be found in the Lord Mayor's Chapel in Bristol.
You get a thumbs down for providing false facts. Cabot was NOT the first European to set foot in the Americas. The Vikings were first then Columbus. Cabot was the first to set foot on the continental North America.
Aside from the truth of what Denis B said... what about the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria in 1492, years before Cabot? What ARE they teaching in British schools?
@@twix3542 The fact that fishermen from Bristol had been fishing the rich cod banks off Newfoundland for generations (and keeping the location of their lucrative source a secret) suggests that the Americas were not 'discovered', but disclosed, most likely for large sums of money. Still, people have probably been travelling to the 'New World' from the 'Old' for thousands of years.
The fact that fishermen from Bristol had been fishing the rich cod banks off Newfoundland for generations (and keeping the location of their lucrative source a secret) suggests that the Americas were not 'discovered', but disclosed, most likely for large sums of money. Still, people have probably been travelling to the 'New World' from the 'Old' for thousands of years.
@@alexandermukai7724 hi yes im aware of that i was just making the point about columbus the viking leif ericksson is the earliest know european to travel there in the 11th century (my date might not be 100%)
Some of the glossing over of slavery in this is shocking, just thankfully wouldn't hold up today, even though this was only made 15 years ago. ' some were treated very well' , jesus christ they were still enslaved people ripped away from their home.
Having just watched the Liverpool episode and now this, I have only felt repulsed by the information he has presented . He mentions the tiny cramped ships, and doesn't ever hold back from saying how horrible this trade was. His interviewee says quite clearly that not many at all were treated well. Not glossed over at all, you are just jumping on one sentence out of context.
This is how arrogance works. Can you imagine if indigenous people showed up in Europe and claimed to have discovered it even though people were there? So far as current evidence shows it was the Vikings that arrived before any other European peoples. There’s more than one tribe of indigenous people in Canada that interacted with them and traded with them. These same people have been in North America for 1000’s and 1000’s of years. They badly need to update the history books but when it comes to the 2 most arrogant countries in the world change comes extremely slow if at all.
I think it's an error and he meant the first European/non-native to properly establish that America exists. I can't perceive a world where he thinks there were no homo sapiens aware of America before that.
