>first european to discover the Americas
>didn't enslave or genocide any natives
>peaceful trading
>set up settlements
>didn't exploit the natives
Completely forgotten by modern society for a Italian. That everyone hates now.
>First to jooka booka
>First to scope da white wominn
>First to rape them all
>>1808677
didn't they go fucking nuts on each other?
>>1808698
Yeah, look up the movie "pathfinder", it's a pretty good rendition of the contacts between the two peoples
A FUCKING LEIF
>>1808706
kek
>>1808677
>first european to discover the Americas
The romans were in North America first.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1946376-exclusive-new-evidence-ancient-romans-may-have-made-it-to-oak-island-canada/
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1333135-oak-island%E2%80%99s-roman-sword-saga-unsheathed
http://www.express.co.uk/news/history/628827/ANCIENT-ROMANS-America-eerie-discovery-change-history
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/25/science/underwater-exploring-is-banned-in-brazil.html
>>1808701
fuck off with your shit b8
>>1808677
>didn't enslave or genocide any natives
>didn't exploit the natives
because he couldn't. the vikings could only fight unarmed, undefending coastal towns. Native Americans were nomadic and were very mobile fighting force. if vikings tried, they'd get slaughtered on land they didn't know. They didn't even try, because it would've been suicide.
>>1808706
You beat me to it
>>1808677
>forgotten
>>1808706
Fuck you I was gonna post the same.
>>1808677
They got driven out by the violent scalp fuckers kek
>>1809464
The north american settlements were never permanent. They did visit them for hundreds of years. To harvest timber and other items for the Greenland settlements.
when greenland got too cold. the vikings abandoned it. even though they knew about the inuits and how they survived in greenland. they thought the Skraelings and their way of life was beneath them. So they fucked off back to Iceland.
Which put an end to Vinland.
If they had actually settled for good. The Greenland Vikings could have gone to Vinland. Then the English and french explorers would have come across a Scandinavian nation in North America.
It's because his journey to America is irrelevant and of no consequence to human history. I mean it's notable. Sure. But it could have not happened and we'd still be at this point today.
>be scandi fag
>unironically called a leif
>discover america
>get beaten up by natives so hard you never ever try to come back again
WE WUZ WIKANGZ AND SHIET
>>1808706
>LE IF
That's reddit as fuck.