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This may seem stupid:
Since there were people settled in the Americas before either of these groups, I think, you're really just seeing who was the first to arrive on the scene after the continents were inhabited or am I missing something?
It seems to me that Columbus's importance has been in being a European Renaissance figure who stirred up interest in the New World in terms of colonial expansion and financial exploitation. Not an entirely good claim to fame, but a significant one.
Even if Polynesian explorers were on the continent first, it doesn't change much about the cultural history, does it?
What am I missing?
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