Who Really Discovered America?
by William F. Dankenbring provides many interesting evidences for ancient Hebrew contact. • The analysis of J. Huston McCulloch concerning the Newark, Ohio Decalogue Stone and Keystone . Are these stones with ancient Hebrew writing frauds or further evidence of ancient Jewish contact with the New World? • The recently authenticated Kensington Runestone, which points to the presence of Norse men who came far inland into North America (central Minnesota). See “Verified at Last: The Strange and Terrible Story of the Kensington Runestone” (Richardson and Richardson, 2001). Such artifacts have long been ignored because they conflict with “common knowledge” among the experts, but the evidence has become strong enough to rock many such faulty assumptions. • The analysis of the early Mayan site Comalcalco by Steede (1998), who tentatively presents numerous indications of transoceanic Old World contact in the architecture and inscribed bricks at this location. • Also see my Response to the (Old
Everyone recognizes that many people were in America long before Columbus. The Asiatic peoples who became Native Americans were certainly the first, tens of thousands of years ago. Also Norse expeditions to North America, starting with Bjarni Herjolfsson in 986, are well established historically. Many other pre-Columbian discoveries are not well established. Claims have been made for St. Brendan, Basque fishermen, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Africans, and even Carthaginians. Some of these claims may be true; most are probably not. For example, Gavin Menzies recently made a big splash by claiming in a bestselling book that America (and most of the rest of the world) was discovered in 1421 by the Chinese Admiral Zheng He. While it is true that Zheng He made a number of important voyages, none of them went beyond the Indian Ocean, as numerous contemporary Chinese accounts make clear. A number of notable scholars have quietly demonstrated that Menzies’ evidence is tissue-thin and his cl
I am a history major and i can tell you that your question is actually a really difficult one to answer. you see if fringes on what discover really means: Does it mean who was there first, does it mean who was there from a European society first, does it mean who traded there or who settled America? You see without that the teacher is really leaving you open to give the wrong answer. So lemme just say this, Native Americans were here first, Vikings stopped by but didn’t settle, A few Spaniards and Portuguese discovered south America and Columbus just discovered that there was land on this side of the globe. Of course he was so stupid he thought he was in India, so we now know the islands he landed on as the west indies. I would tell her to say it was the native Americans though,she can make a good argument for that.
We all know in 1492 “Columbus sailed the ocean blue…” and landed pretty close to what’s now America. Of course, evidence exists that Vikings first reached the new world. But what if someone else got there even before the Vikings, in fact may have been the source of tales leading to the Viking westward exploration?
