Things I've Learned This Chapter

So we have recently finished studying Chapter 2 in my U.S. History classes.  Little did I know that I would be learning as much as the children.  Here are the top ten things I learned that I thought I knew, but I undoubtedly did not learn correctly the first time.
1.  Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer to circumCIRCULATE the entire globe.
2.  Christopher Columbus is the most important explorer because he "made the first ship in 1964."
3.  If not for Columbus, the Indians might have taken over the whole country.
4. Question: What Native American possession became valuable to Europeans due to the overtrapping of animals?
    Answer:  Henry Hudson
5.  Without Columbus, we would have no technology.
6.  America might be different without Columbus because a rude person might have found it instead.
7.  If not for Columbus in America, people wouldn't know how to sail.
8.  If not for Columbus, we would never have found Asia.
9.  If not for Ferdinand Magellan, we wouldn't know the shape of the earth, and some people might even still think it was flat.
10.  If Robert de La Salle had not found the mouth of the Mississippi River, we would probably think that it goes on forever.

I believe the children are our future...