01-14-2006, 08:52 PM | #1 |
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Everything you learned in school is wrong.
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Interesting..
It wouldn't surprise me if that's how it happened. After all, Marco Polo brought back pasta from the Orient and claimed it for the Italians as well.
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It's really not a very new theory, although the evidence might be new. For example, I think Boorstin's book "The Discoverers" talks at some length about the Chinese explorers, and this guy in particular, and discusses the possibility of his landfall in No or So America.
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There is all sorts of evidence that others arrived before columbus. Cocaine has been found in the stomachs of Egyptian mummies-- a substance which only grows in South America. The pyramids in Mesoamerica are possibly derived from their egyptian counterparts. Polynesians, Chinese, Vikings, and possibly (and probably) others made it to America before Columbus.
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