Who discovered North America ?

native americans are asians

…and now look at the place. :smiley:

The same ancestral line… yes, but adapted.

My only question is, why did Native Americans not have fireworks and all the gizmos and gadgets of asia?

They may have broke off from their Oriental ancestors prior to the fireworks gizmos and gadgets that the Orientals invented?

When you came to England, did you discover England like the Vikings when they discovered North America? :slight_smile:

As Quebecers are proud to tell me, the Vikings were in Canada long before any weaker peoples set foot in the Americas.

Edit - I see Arc beat me to it.

The Kenewick Man Controversy:
youtube.com/watch?v=jg28ww5IaXY

The study showed he was genetically closer to Native Americans than to any other groups:
nature.com/articles/nature14625

Early this year (2017), his remains were returned to the Indian tribes for burial:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZJDg6H7MNE4

The reason why it is called America is because of Amerigo Vespucci who discovered it before Columbus did
Not that he was the actual discoverer himself since it has been acknowledged that others came before him

Can you really say that a man discovered it if he didn’t even know what it was?

Who first realized that it was an entire continent between Asia and Europe?

If the semantics of the word “discoverer” or the word discovering" has to meet two conditions - (1.) to be the first one who has arrived and (2.) to know for sure what exactly has been discovered -, then nobody has ever discovered North America. :stuck_out_tongue:

Perhaps … than again … 1421: The Year China Discovered America

… and the Chinese likely were aware of the geography of the Western Hemisphere … at least in a broad/general sense.

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Here are some facts … draw your own conclusions. :slight_smile:

I was living and working in Pond Inlet Nunavut before coming to China.

pond-inlet-nunavut-map.png

In bidding farewell to my boss … a middle aged Inuit man … born in an igloo … probably one of the last Inuit people to be born in such circumstances … he shared an oral Inuit legend … “The Chinese will be back”

12 years later the echo of his story is carried on the wind for all those with eyes to see or ears to hear. The message is crystal clear and the intensity of the message is both blinding and deafening … in essence … "The Chinese are back!

The only difference between the former and the latter is the conjugation of the verb “to be” … in the former “will be” and the latter “are”.

As JSS so astutely wrote a month or so ago … “Truth is destructive”

It is indeed … it is … i n d e e d !

Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1520), Universalis Cosmographia, Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map which was the first to show the Americas.

This is rejected by historians as a fiction.

They may have heard of this legend. But not everything that has been said and heard is true.

Of course!

Anything less would be suicidal. :slight_smile:

The Chinese ventured out into the world about 600 years ago … triggered a quantum shift in Western consciousness … ergo …the renaissance.

The Chinese went back home and closed their doors to the outside world until recently.

The Chinese are once again going out into the world … expect another quantum shift in Western consciousness. :slight_smile:

Read my opening quote.

Most Chinese historians also reject the alleged Chinese discovery of America as a fiction.

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Is that your opening post, Pilgrim-Seeker Tom?