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Who discovered India? Which country (other than America) did Christopher Columbus discover?

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Who discovered India? Which country (other than America) did Christopher Columbus discover?

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It would be erroneous to say that Christopher Columbus discovered America. It already existed. There were people living there, some of whom had developed a great civilization – far more advanced than any in Europe. The Europeans destroyed this civilization. Perhaps it succumbed because it was already on the decline due to internal conflicts. One can give one possible answer to the first finding, by humans, of most parts of the Earth. There is strong evidence that our species evolved in Africa about half a million years ago. It might have spread out to the rest of the world in several small waves. I am sure it did not take as long to populate India as it might have America or Australia. The Bering Strait is considered the most probable route, which migrant populations would have taken to reach America, since it was frozen at that time, allowing people to just walk across. Many of the questions are still being debated with newer dating technologies (including DNA dating) adding fresh ins

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