[muawiyah]

The fellows who founded Cahokia about 800 AD drank tea made from the leaves of the only North American plant in the tea family. That's when the bow and arrow arrived in America.

So, tea drinkers with boats that could sail the ocean, sail up the Mississippi, found Cahokia, pass out bows and arrows and do that all before the first Viking dragon boat had been built.

Trick is the Vikings made permanant contact with the Sa'ami some time AFTER 800 AD ~ and it was the Sa'ami boat used in wild mountain rivers and the nearby Arctic ocean that served as the design base for the later scaled up ocean going Viking boats.

So, Chinese first, then Spaniards, then Vikings ~

[SeminoleCounty]

Maybe you meant Chinese, then Vikings, then Spanish....?

With “bow and arrow”, do you mean the crossbow...or longbow? 9thC is a little early for longbow, I believe