Jack of Harts

Today we celebrate the day Columbus found the New World. Yes, he never set foot on the American continents, and he wasn’t even the first European to find the New World. That honor goes to my Viking ancestors. But it was a very great day for all of us. Europe had gone through centuries of invasions and plagues that destroyed their greatest nations and killed what many historians believe to have been one third of all human life on the continent. From that near civilization-ending catastrophe, Europe picked itself back up, rebuilt its economic systems, and went out in search of new-to-them lands. The Age of Discovery was Europe’s answer to their near destruction, and it paved the way that brought every nation on Earth together to talk in one place. The New World. The world we live in now, with all its limitless progress, is thanks to people like Columbus, who sailed the ocean blue in search of new opportunities.