h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Chris Colombo 'discovered' America, even if it was a litle island and he thought it was China and he called the local boys Indians and the land was eventually to be named after Vespucci instead of him. This was the latest in a series of such discoveries, and was the most effective in terms of organised and disorganised genocide. Yeah, I know the inhabitants felt that a million square miles of land could be lived in and squabbled over just like everyone else, but the new boys brought gunpowder and flu and VD and measles and enabled both New-World continents soon to be much more free of people than they started off, thus officially empty, thus needing the poor huddled masses to come and make something of it. And so Truth, Justice and Mom's Apple Pie were invented. The date was a major turning point in world history during the Second Millennium.

Colon was a bungler of the olde schoole wasn't he. He called the Chinese Indians because of their colour perhaps?

A major shareholder in the spirit of colons everywhere, we now have the opportunity to free Arabia in the same way.