Just as in the case with the modern flush toilet, when something like the United States has become an unbridled success, every Tom, Dick and Harry, and their individual cultural iconography, wants credit for the discovery.
So far we have the Vikings, The Spanish and Portuguese ( Columbus) , the Chinese ( Zheng He),The Scots ( Clan Sinclair), and the Iraquis ( Mesopotamians in South America according to Sitchin), who "dsicovered America.".
America was discovered truly in 1776 by the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, and those who wrote the US Constitution.Any fool should understand this. This fool does.
Who hasn’t known about the Aleutian land bridge leading to the population of the Americas by Asians theory for many, many, many decades? I guess his contribution is increased specificity. The American Indian aboriginists aren’t going to like this at all.
Canoe, Raccoon, Tobacco, er.... Casino,
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When you go back that far for comparisons the languages have changed too much for anything to be valid. That said, I believe it likely that many different groups made it to America by many different routes over many millennia.
Begging the question, but 8,000-25,000 years ago, where were the ‘Mongolians’ living, while the then-inhabitants of now-Mongolia were busy leaving for freer shores?
Let me first to say
KHANNNNNNNN
I wanna see proof! -pictures, newspapers, dates!
Damn you Mongowians! Always tying to dethtroy my chitty wall!
And when they saw the first buffalo, they got the idea for Mongolian beef. But with no cattle, it became Mongolian Buffalo, but being there were no goldfish box containers, the idea quickly fell apart.
It was the end of the Mongolian occupation of North America.
Next week: Why catfish make poor mousers.
A Mongolian professor of history has said America was discovered by the Mongolians and not Christopher Columbus, as is popularly believed,
This professor needs to get out more. We all know 'ole Chris wasn't the first one here. Heck, he never even hit 'America'.
But as to 'Mongolians' being first??? Wouldn't bet the rent on that.