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History isn't just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories

throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History Unplugged

Podcast where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that

made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.

Christopher Columbus was the first European explorer to establish a permanent trade and settlement

route between Europe and the New World. Now that is a very basic fact that I just spouted off,

but notice how many caveats I had to add. First, permanent trade route, settlement route.

Because if I were to credit Columbus with being the first explorer to the New World,

many people would rush back at me and say, oh, actually, the Vikings came to the New World in

1000 AD. Vikings are popular like never before and I fully credit them for establishing the northern

exploration route that took them to Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland, but they didn't establish

permanent colony. There was a colony there for a few years but then it disappeared and their

colony in Greenland also disappeared after the medieval war period ended. For better force,

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