Comment by TwinFrogs on 07/02/2025 at 05:05 UTC

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View submission: What if Christopher colombus expedition failed miserably ?

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The Norska Danish Vikings were in Newfoundland 500 years before the asshole Spanish showed up in the Caribbean and started murdering natives.

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Comment by Kiyohara at 07/02/2025 at 13:52 UTC

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The Norse settlements also lasted less than a generation and were never repeated *and* they didn't tell anyone about it, so it's kind of like if someone flew a rocket to the moon and back in 1955 and just stayed quiet the whole time.