Erdoğan says America discovered by Muslims, wants mosque on Cuba hill

[Bigfella]

Not talking about slavery Z. Strong possibility that Africans had some contact with Sth America before Columbus:

According to the abstract of Columbus's log made by Bartolomé de las Casas, the purpose of Columbus’s third voyage was to test both the claims of King John II of Portugal that “canoes had been found which set out from the coast of Guinea [West Africa] and sailed to the west with merchandise” as well as the claims of the native inhabitants of Hispaniola that “from the south and the southeast had come black people whose spears were made of a metal called guanín...from which it was found that of 32 parts: 18 were gold, 6 were silver, and 8 copper.”

Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[zraver]

Left out Africans who may have got to Sth America & the Carribean.

I left out the Africans because the bulk of them did not arrive y choice and was unaware they sailed the Atlantic.

[Albany Rifles]

So how did all that Great Lake's copper get to Egypt the Levant and what is now Turkey?

Sharks with frickin laser beams on their head.....

[Bigfella]

So prior to the 1200's we have (claimed, proven and/or suspected groups)

Polynesians, Japanese, Chinese, Basques, Vikings, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Romans, Irish, Asians that would become native Americans, Jews and the Solutreans (Proto-Europeans)

After the 1200's we have (claimed, proven and/or suspected groups)

Templars, Moslems, Lost Italians, Spanish, Dutch, French, English

After 1600- everyone else

Left out Africans who may have got to Sth America & the Carribean.

[Big K]

it says: Erdogan is re-writing the history...

what a shame to have such.... i dont have right words to describe this social idiotness that covered us...

[bonehead]

Without pictures…..it never happened. So sorry Erdogan

[zraver]

We forgot the Russians - they owned Alaska and had settlements down the West coast.

Not until later on though.

[DonBelt]

We forgot the Russians - they owned Alaska and had settlements down the West coast.

[zraver]

So prior to the 1200's we have (claimed, proven and/or suspected groups)

Polynesians, Japanese, Chinese, Basques, Vikings, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Romans, Irish, Asians that would become native Americans, Jews and the Solutreans (Proto-Europeans)

After the 1200's we have (claimed, proven and/or suspected groups)

Templars, Moslems, Lost Italians, Spanish, Dutch, French, English

After 1600- everyone else

[Bigfella]

So yet another group in America....

Hell yes. Hard to keep something that big in that part of the world a secret.

[zraver]

Could have been traded either east or west. Fishermen from the Iberian Peninsular & most likely elsewhere have had sporadic contact with Nth America for millennia.

So yet another group in America....

[Bigfella]

So how did all that Great Lake's copper get to Egypt the Levant and what is now Turkey?

Could have been traded either east or west. Fishermen from the Iberian Peninsular & most likely elsewhere have had sporadic contact with Nth America for millennia.

[Officer of Engineers]

So who wasn't in America prior to Columbus?

The Americans.

[zraver]

Polynesians.

I thought it was the Lost Tribes of Israel who left behind the golden tablets found by Joseph Smith.... :P

So who wasn't in America prior to Columbus?

[DonBelt]

Polynesians.