Apparently they're a type of Shipworm. Which is a species of clam. They lack shells and so instead bore into wood. They're quite the menace and apparently were responsible for nearly sinking two of Columbus' ships
Do you believe that if Columbus didn't travel to the Americas that we wouldn't exist? Or the possibility that if someone else could've discovered Americas would everything stayed the same or different?
He didn't discover it. Or at least not in the sense of the word everyone uses it to mean. He was late in his discovery. There were at least 4 other groups that had been here first. He was just the only one to be malicious on such a level. Hell even the Vikings were peacefulish when they came around.
Columbus wasn't malicious was he? He tried to find another route to India for the spices and encountered America along the way. The spanish King was the one that sent Hernan Cortes to conquer the New Spain (Mexico).
He enslaved an entire tribe of natives and when he left and came to find they rose up against the people he left behind he wiped them out. He was the direct cause of raping and pillaging of more than one native tribe
Technically speaking, yes to all of that but what I meant was if those events didn't happen would we be still here today? How things are today, would it all be there same or altered?
If he died before telling the Spanish to send over asstons of assholes then most likely the French would have made it here before them. The French took a weird path when it came to natives. Most of the time the recognized that the natives knew the land much better than them and didn't fuck with them. They did a lot of trading and such and had rather fruitful relationships worth multiple tribes. If they got here first it's entirely possible that they could have colonized at the same level the British did irl. Also any change to the time line and literally no one would be the same person at all after a certain point from the change as any slight change in situation could change which sperm fertilizes the egg resulting in a completely different person.
If Columbus has never gotten to the Americas things would obviously be altered. That doesn't mean someone else wouldn't have discovered them and taken them over, but the likelihood of any of us even being alive is fairly slim
I meant even one of us. Like one individual. There's a very microscopically slim chance one of us might have made it through the cracks of history and be genetically the same, but either way history would be different, and so would that person as a result
I am no longer drinking milk.