For the record: Richard Halliburton died attempting to sail a Chinese junk from China to America
It is my recollection that sailors from the western lands of IndoChina now submerged sailed keeled rafts to America long before Columbus or Eric the Red
I remember a book, about fifty or so years ago that the Lost Army of Alexander the Great sailed from India to the Americas. This was not a claim by Joseph Smith who say Israelites did it.
The evidence for Pacific Islander exploration and settlement of America (at least South and Central America) is much more compelling than for what is being claimed here about the Chinese.
One thing I noticed near the end of the show when the host was talking to a Chinese ‘map expert” was how the “expert” pointed out map detail that Europeans didn’t possess at the time this Chinese map was supposedly made. The Appalachian mountains were labeled, and the ‘expert’ translated the Chinese text into a word that sounded very close to Appalachia (appachia, or something like that? I can’t remember). But the problem with this is that the first to use the term to describe the mountain range were the Spanish, and the name came from a small Indian Tribe around Tallahassee. The name had no connection to the mountain range until the Spanish began to use this tribal name to describe an ever expanding region - which eventually became the region we know today as Appalachia.
Obviously this Chinese word that sounds like Appalachia was derived from the Spanish term. The odds that the Chinese would chose the same name as the Spanish are slim to none - considering that the name doesn’t really have much connection with the region any way. That’s the problem with forgeries. It ‘s difficult to come up with one that doesn’t betray itself with inconsistencies like this.
Stone age white boys are so far the oldest remains found in North America.
At the end of the day, who cares, everyone should have the same rights without some having handouts others don’t. Indian reservations are the worst of it. They weren’t here first, it’s crappy they were conquered, but at the same time it wasn’t all sunshine and roses with them. It was actually the opposite. Everyone needs to be treated equally under the law and that’s the end of it.
Definitely the Asians beat the Europeans here. By sea or by land. Biologically obvious.