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Thread: Do you believe that Chinese circumnavigated the world in 1421?
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[quote=IMOTHEP,230831]About GRIZ questions about Western history giving credit to Columbus for the discovery of America: The answer is quite simple: 1) It's true that the Americas were already populated by people who came from Asia and Siberia over the ice of the Bering Straits. Recent archeologic discoveries and DNA tests show that even before those Asian migrations, people from southern France traveled to America. Paleo-archeologists now feel that the Salutrians traveled in skin boats across the frontier of the ice sheet all the way to this continent. 2) Based on Archeological research, It is also generally acepted that the Vikings sailed to America around ca. 1000. 3) The reason why the discovery of America is credited to Columbus as to do with the fact that historically, that was the voyage that lead to the colonization of the continent. An historical major event which consequences were decisive in shaping the continent we have today. From Language to Religion, Culture etc, the link to western civilization is obvious. In conclusion, nobody is going to care much if tomorrow is proven, that let's say for example, that Saint Brendan was really in America, as I have already explained the real impact on the continent's history was made by the Spanish and Portuguese.[/quote]
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