Posted on 11/13/2015 5:37:41 AM PST by NYer
Cabral only got to Northeast Brazil. He never got to the straits.
Yeah, all that. But a Native American would say none of them “discovered” America for it wasn’t lost.
They were already here, having trekked great distance over land, or down the Pacific Coast if you like that version.
Living as I do along the Pacific Coast, and knowing the ancient age (11,000 years) and nature of archeological findings on the offshore Channel Islands, I think that is very plausible.
Beats me, I don’t watch it.
Except for Germany :)
although i dont they refer to it as the fatherland anymore.
if they dont change things, they’ll be referring to it as little Iraq.
Well maybe not Africa, there is a waterway. But really Europe shouldn’t be considered a continent. While it’s an identifiable cultural zone as far as geography is concerned it should at best be a sub-continent like India.
Waldseemüller's map was the first to incorporate the exploratory findings of Amerigo Vespucci, who first demonstrated that the newly discovered coasts of the New World were part of their own separate land mass, and not just another part of Asia.
“and gores (maps designed to be cut out and pasted to a sphere “
Can we do that to Al?
Nice. Thanks for the ping.
My pleasure. In the late 1960s, some leftist touch-hole invented the claim that, rather than Amerigo, the Americas were named after an (unattested, because he made it up) native tribe from Central America.
There is no need for these questions to be answered by this board, as they are already answered above in the article. By all means read up on what is in front of you.
I think someone, Sunken Civ?, posted an article about a Chinese ruler who had a great armada of ships take off on a major trip exploring the world. I seem to recall that something really bad happened. A huge storm? And after that not much more was done at sea.
Maybe it wasn’t a storm. Maybe they brought back terrible diseases. Sailers will be sailers. Trips to the New World brought back syphilis, or “the French pox.”
I have the book by Gloria Farley. It is fascinating. Indicates a number of different cultures briefly visiting the US from before Christ up to before Columbus. Left a number of different scripts and figures of gods and goddesses.
America Williams?
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