Ping!
Few months ago I saw an article saying that Marco Polo possibly sailed down the West coast. If I remember right based on some map that predated Columbus.
Its no surprise in that part of North America with its close proximity to Asia.
Well, it’s true — you CAN see Russia from Alaska. Why wouldn’t they trade?
Is anyone here married to the idea Columbus had to be the first discoverer of the Americas? I’m not. It was he who came and opened up the Americas in semi-modern times, his and the subsequent ships that came over. His efforts were key to the modern 15 century and on opening up of the territory we now call the United States.
If others came also, the fact is they didn’t open up the Americas.
Now I will say that those who populated the U. S. through the Native American erra, also opened up the Americas, and a full study of their efforts is also interesting and valid.
They could effectively be given credit for a prior opening up of the Americas. In modern times, it’s Columbus.
Our current civilization has every right to recognize Columbus for his efforts.
None of this actually bothers me, but it seems there’s always this effort to trump Columbus. It truly grates some people that he is recognized at all.
That is cool
Logical and no reason to be surprised.
OH DUH as former resident of Alaska I knew that ROFL
Everything in the house was marked
MADE IN CHINA
You have two groups of people who travel across the straits, marry across the straits but don't trade.
O-kay.
Something I’ve been saying for years. My history teachers almost fifty years ago showed us evidence of Chinese sailors having visited the shores of North America over a thousand years ago. They traded with American Indian tribes. Historical documents in China have writings and drawings describing flora and fauna only existing in America, written some 1300 years ago. There are similarities between Asians and American natives. All ignored by western “historians” in favor of Columbus.
I didn’t know they had battery powered stuff back then.
That one tool looks something like a Harbor Freight ‘tennis racket’ bug zapper, but it’s described as an automatic seal club. Fascinating.
Those inventive Chinese! Gunpowder, pasta, ice cream and now, electric cat polishers.
AMERICAN INDIANS DISCOVERED GERMANY IN 1153
1153 “In the yeere 1153 ... it is written, that there came to Lubec, a citie of Germanie, one Canoa with certaine Indians, like vnto a long barge: which seemed to haue come from the coast of Baccalaos [Newfoundland], which standeth in the same latitude that Germanie doth.”[ Found in Antoine Galvano, in Goldsmid’s ed. of “Hakluyt’s Voyages”, vol. xvi., p. 293; “Jesuit Relations”, p.308
How can you “discover” a place if you don’t know where you are?
Diddn’t they match “native” american’s dna with Siberian Asia?
Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida)
Go almost to the end of the video below to see the DNA results.
Research shows that a lot of the copper used in Europe 1,000 years before Columbus came from somewhere in the midwest.
well, duh.