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sodapopzilla is not online. sodapopzilla
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21 Nov 2012 06:06 PM
Amazing man.

Columbus, basing his calculations on incorrect assumptions about the size of the earth, assumed that it would be possible to reach the rich markets of eastern Asia by sailing west. Had he succeeded in finding a new trade route, it would have made him a very wealthy man. Instead he found the Caribbean, then inhabited by cultures with little in the way of gold, silver or trade goods. Unwilling to completely abandon his calculations, Columbus made a laughingstock of himself back in Europe by claiming that the Earth was not round, but shaped like a pear. He had not found Asia, he said, because of the bulging part of the pear near the stalk.

Amazing.
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ThomasDempsey is not online. ThomasDempsey
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21 Nov 2012 06:07 PM
More like idiotic.
People back then were so....Well, the smartest man then, is like a rocket scientist of today .
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sodapopzilla is not online. sodapopzilla
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21 Nov 2012 06:08 PM
Obvious sarcasm is obvious....
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ThomasDempsey is not online. ThomasDempsey
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21 Nov 2012 06:09 PM
Obviously I was agreeing with you mate.
I wasn't disagreeing.
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gocool3 is not online. gocool3
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21 Nov 2012 06:09 PM
"More like idiotic."
What grade are you in.

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sodapopzilla is not online. sodapopzilla
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21 Nov 2012 06:10 PM
I posted that late, for others.
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ThomasDempsey is not online. ThomasDempsey
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21 Nov 2012 06:10 PM
8th, and doing an Independent studies program called "Advanced Academics." How about you?
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awsomeness7878 is not online. awsomeness7878
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21 Nov 2012 06:10 PM
Also, there's evidence that he brought a disease back with him, that ended up killing 5 million people.

We know what the disease was, but I forgot it.
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21 Nov 2012 06:10 PM
senatus populusque columbia
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ThomasDempsey is not online. ThomasDempsey
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21 Nov 2012 06:11 PM
I hate how everyone in OT acts as if they're better then everyone else.
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21 Nov 2012 06:12 PM
@Awesome

It's a fact. England had a ton of diseases and they brought it over to America.
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gocool3 is not online. gocool3
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21 Nov 2012 06:12 PM
6th.
"I hate how everyone in OT acts as if they're better then everyone else."
I hate when new OTers just screw up everything.

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awsomeness7878 is not online. awsomeness7878
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21 Nov 2012 06:13 PM
I know that, but apparently, Christopher brought a disease from America to England.
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WhyYouN0 is not online. WhyYouN0
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21 Nov 2012 06:14 PM
Guess what! I live in the oldest city in North America.

~Get back in your cage~
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21 Nov 2012 06:14 PM
@gocool

You're kind of a jerk.
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sodapopzilla is not online. sodapopzilla
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21 Nov 2012 06:14 PM
@Awesome

No, but the diseases brought over to America killed over 5 million. Mostly small pox.
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21 Nov 2012 06:15 PM
@gocool

Please leave. You're annoying and a jerk.

(inb4youjoined2012) I joined 08 on Slimershady
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awsomeness7878 is not online. awsomeness7878
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21 Nov 2012 06:15 PM
>No

Unless you have a source that says that he did not bring a disease back to Europe, you have no reason to disagree with me.
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Skellor is not online. Skellor
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21 Nov 2012 06:16 PM
he miscalculated the distance by 7000 miles

he predicted the journey would take 21 days
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theo1170 is not online. theo1170
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21 Nov 2012 06:17 PM
It wasn't his fault he brought back disease to England, nor was it his fault for giving the American natives disease either.
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sodapopzilla is not online. sodapopzilla
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21 Nov 2012 06:17 PM
@Awesome

Christopher Columbus DID bring syphilis back to Europe, but it wasn't anything serious.
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sodapopzilla is not online. sodapopzilla
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21 Nov 2012 06:19 PM
@theo

That's irrelevant. We know this.
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awsomeness7878 is not online. awsomeness7878
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21 Nov 2012 06:19 PM
YES! SYPHILIS! That was what I was thinking of!

Anyway, it was and still is a pretty serious disease .
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sodapopzilla is not online. sodapopzilla
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21 Nov 2012 06:20 PM
@awesome

I heard it wasn't even confirmed. It's more of a theory.
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awsomeness7878 is not online. awsomeness7878
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21 Nov 2012 06:21 PM
Yeah, that's pretty much what I said....
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