Posted on 03/20/2007 5:28:36 PM PDT by blam
They traded direct rather than colonize.
On the coast of western Africa is a very, very ancient stone pier. Nobody seems to know whose it was or when it was in use.
Admiral Hu and Cosco?
That would be unlikely. Probably Egypt for the Africa-South America route, same as the Portugese used later (the route, not the pier: the pier was already useless by then.)
They make it like any normal temperate or artic zone animal.
will attempt a scan and post after vacation
The cocaine route perhaps.
Possibly. And pineapples, corn, turkeys, furs, copper, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, brasilwood, tobacco, and fish. Always fish, dried fish. Strangely, not much gold and silver.
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Interesting post from the other topic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1804647/posts?page=17#17
just a quickie on Phoenician vessels:
The Marsala Punic Warship
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum | circa 1999 | Honor Frost
Posted on 04/13/2006 3:31:09 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1614591/posts
"Captain Cook is scuppered by book"
"Hey, hey, hey! Lets keep this discussion PG-13!!! It's still family hour out on the west coast!"
Huh?
I don't understand the complaint.
Ancient Celtic / Scottish Viking sites in New Zealand!(?)
The Little Doctors & Martin Doutré? | October 2003
Posted on 04/11/2006 12:19:16 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
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There is a NZ amateur archaeologist who has postulated that the Phoenicians charted most of the globe well before the Lake Taupo eruption (including OZ and NZ and the west coast of North America) -- based on rock carvings that he has found in the vicinity, purportedly from their "settlement". One of these carvings is a remarkably accurate map of the world. He lives just up the road from me.
I've read his book, seen his rock carving reproductions, and he is very possibly right -- if so, it's an amazing find, completely unlike anything modern Civilization had previously thought to be the pattern of Pacific exploration and settlement.
All I can say is "nothing surprises me anymore." Or as someone in the Old Country once wrote "In Erthe and Skye and Sea, Straynge Thyngs there Be..."
*DieHard*
"On the coast of western Africa is a very, very ancient stone pier. Nobody seems to know whose it was or when it was in use."
Opar?
"Huh?
I don't understand the complaint."
It was a joke. As if "scuppered" meant something sexual; like niggardly had anything at all to do with race...
Doesn't really matter who discovers what - it matters who colonizes it and exploits it.
"There is also speculation that the Portuguese also reached North America before Columbus' expedition that discovered America."
My Portuguese friends says they were cod fishing off newfoundland for centuries earlier.
Oh my goodness. You said the N word!!!!
He said the N word! He said the N word!!!
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