Posted on 10/02/2024 3:12:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nope it was the chinese as the Indian DNA shows chinese background. China has not claimed the USA and have given us 2 weeks to get out.
Ah, yes, but once Columbus “discovered” America, it remained discovered.
That's why he gets all the credit. Not the Vikings. Even though they've made an attempt on a colony in America a couple of hundreds years earlier.
Re: https://www.history.com/news/human-migration-americas-beringia
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“Ah, yes, but once Columbus “discovered” America, it remained discovered.”
I agree. Commercial secrecy during the Late Middle Ages was a given and any resources or lands discovered by fishermen and expeditions would have been kept secret as long as possible. Imagine the glee of the Vikings as they sold narwhal tusks from the Canadian Artic to the Europeans as unicorn horns.
Columbus actually “discovered” and explored the Caribbean islands if Hispaniola (Dominican Republic/Haiti) and Cuba.
If they did there wouldn’t be anything left.
No.
Every “discovery” prior to Columbus was later “undiscovered”, i.e. forgotten about. Columbus’s discovery was the only one with any significance.
My theory is that Americans first discovered the middle east. Sounds crazy I know. But it would sure tick off the Arabs.
“No - The theory with near-unanimous support from both archeologists and geneticists is that the first humans to populate the Americas arrived on foot via a temporary land bridge.”
No, they came by boat. Human maritime expeditions go as far back as the Paleolithic. Just how did those pesky aborigines get to Australia and the Polynesians to Hawaii and Easter Island? How were Mediterranean islands populated? Sardinia has never has a land bridge and modern humans appeared in the island during the Upper Paleolithic, a phalanx dated to 18000 BC had been found in the Corbeddu cave, near Oliena.
Before roads there were boats, everything of significant weight and size was moved by boats. Wood was plentiful as were hides for sails. The fisheries of the ancient world were very, very productive and people sailed the ocean reaping the bounty long, long before a single word was ever written on stone.
Pedro Cabral, en route to India in 1500, was blown off course and encountered Brazil--so even if Columbus had never sailed, the Americas would not have remained unknown to Europeans much longer.
Of course John Cabot's voyage in 1497 was earlier than Cabral's, but I think Cabot only sailed because he knew of Columbus' discovery.
That is correct.
That’s right.
it doesn’t matter WHO discovered WHAT once it’s has a name that everyone knows and repeats over and over and over. like the ohtani 50th whatever baseball, it only matters who ended up with the ball and that’s all history will remember.
“...Did the Arabs First Discover America?...”
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NO!
Next question.
Not true. At the very least, he landed on St. Croix in 1493.
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