re: Feb 29, 1504. Columbus Plays Dirty Trick on Indians

You're wrong. Disease, which neither group had any type of handle on, did most of the heavy lifting as far as clearing the way for Europeans to settle the Americas.

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No one wants to talk about it, but when the Europeans arrived, these people hadn’t even invented the wheel.

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I've read that they had invented the wheel in South America, but only used them on children's toys. The terrain in much of South America was mountainous, or choked with vegetation, so the wheel wasn't of much practical use to them.

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Here is what Bing Copilot said about that:

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Columbus' first voyage was in 1492. He made four voyages to the Americas, this particular voyage was his last voyage. He brought back natives each time and some likely became interpreters. Columbus and also learned their language to some extent as did the priests who traveled with him to convert the natives.

the man who discovered America,
---Columbus never set foot in America

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You aren't more correct than anyone else. Were Europeans savage? Yes. Were the inhabitants of this unnamed continent savage? Also, yes.

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Trick question, they were the same.

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A Danish-led international research team has mapped the hitherto oldest genome of an anatomically modern human: the genome of a boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in south-central Siberia some 24,000 years ago.

Surprisingly, the genetic material reveals that the boy was European, which means that a European culture reached all the way east to Lake Baikal.

The really sensational news, however, is that a large proportion (about a third) of all living Native Americans are descendants of the Mal’ta people. In other words, Native Americans have partly European ancestry.

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the man who discovered America, ---Columbus never set foot in America

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Whites!

gross. do they taste like oysters?

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the man who discovered America,
---Columbus never set foot in America

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He landed in Venezuela and in what we call Central America. If you look at a map of North America, it includes Central America. He also landed on Puerto Rico. He did not set foot on the lower 48, but he did set foot on what became US territory. He may have also landed on St. Croix.