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   @artwise1415

   January 1, 2024 at 1:12 am

   First: Native New Worlders. Next: The Chinese. Next the Vikings. Then my Swedish, Jewish,, Scotts,
   Kazakhstani, Turkish, Italian ancestors. Sorry.

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   @donnafletcher5386

   January 1, 2024 at 2:31 am

   Interesting that the name Eric is inside America.

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   @RivetGardener

   January 2, 2024 at 12:23 am

   "who were the bold men that preceded Columbus"? Well the Basques, duh! Read the book COD: A biography of the fish that changed the world by Mark Kurlansky. Tells you all you need to know with pictures and documented facts.

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   @HamCubes

   January 2, 2024 at 2:36 am

   I have heard of Leif Erickson and St. Brendan the Navigator, but never of Prince Madoc.
   Not related to North America, at least.
   But he ticks all the boxes off interest to me, which is why I am surprised I've never heard the legend.

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   @ivomedic5745

   January 2, 2024 at 8:25 am

   Doesn’t matter who is first important is Columbus brought Christianity first in new world.

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   @Jota-we2is

   January 2, 2024 at 4:09 pm

   It seems like a childish debate to try to find out if someone arrived in America before Columbus. The first to arrive were evidently the Siberian populations that crossed through Bering. It is quite irrelevant if before Columbus, it was the Basque whalers who set foot on American lands, or if it was the Vikings; None of them managed to consolidate any settlement. With very high probability, the Polynesians were one of the first peoples to arrive in America and, in addition, they were capable of populating the territory. The essential thing about the topic is that, starting with the Spanish expedition, America becomes part of the maps, and corn, potatoes and tomatoes are incorporated into the diet of the rest of the world. Columbus not only discovered America, but he discovered to everyone (he also discovered it to the Americans themselves), that human beings were capable of reaching wherever their imagination was capable of dreaming. The Spanish crown discovered that investing in navigation was opening the door to the future and that is what it did.

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   @anthonytroisi6682

   January 2, 2024 at 8:02 pm

   Obviously the Scandinavians were willing to leave established communities to go to find arable land. The settlers took tremendous risks to improve their economic status. Remember only 14 ships originally made it to Greenland. Unlike other colonists, the Scandinavians took their families and all their possessions with them. Instead of making a grab for gold and returning to their homeland, the settlers were staking everything on the possibility of founding a permanent settlement. The Greenlanders made their living also from exporting falcons . The deforestation of Greenland, Iceland and Scotland compelled the Scandinavians to seek sources of lumber.

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   @anthonytroisi6682

   January 2, 2024 at 8:21 pm

   When you hear about ships that sailed from Europe but were lost in the Atlantic, everyone assumes that the ships sank. It is highly possible that some of these ships landed on the American continent after being blown of course. Shipwrecked sailors also could have introduced European concepts and technology to the New World. The trick wasn't discovering the New World. The trick was making it back to the European homeland and widely disseminating information about the discovery.

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   @robertberry3394

   January 2, 2024 at 9:09 pm

   Yes. I actually had reply that did not agree with the to investigative books the Admiral wrote. I said fine, where is your 20 years of research to dispute. Then they start backing up. England historical museum has a math box from China dated 212. I has Pascal’s triangle before pascal was a gleam in his daddy’s eye, also the formula for acre feet of water in a dam. Not a backwards people. Thank you for your response.

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    @ericvogt7123

    January 3, 2024 at 8:52 am

    Leif was not a Viking

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    @puravida809

    January 3, 2024 at 6:25 pm

    The only reason Columbus is still celebrated is for the immense riches he has brought to his masters.

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    @rickdearing3204

    January 4, 2024 at 7:24 pm

    Where the proof african came to America s so much bull

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    @Barettix

    January 4, 2024 at 10:57 pm

    America was already populated. Why do europeans insist that they discovered anything?

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    @katyu16

    January 5, 2024 at 5:47 am

    St. Brendan discovered America…I.E…the Irish discovered America…

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    @robertberry3394

    January 5, 2024 at 3:54 pm

    People like you don’t deserve an answer. It is amazing how some people prefer to remain ignorant.

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    @edithgarcia6545

    January 7, 2024 at 9:55 am

    In Iceland is a group of people carried the DNA of a Native American woman that the Vikings brought to Iceland that is a prove

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    @Art-ot2jn

    January 7, 2024 at 10:13 am

    U forgot Cabot

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    @grantmcauliffe3437

    January 8, 2024 at 12:33 pm

    How can any explorer claim that they "discovered" America when it was already inhabited? Same with Australia, where I live.
    The first European to find America, perhaps.

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    @MaxExpat-ps5yk

    January 8, 2024 at 7:43 pm

    So nice to see the truth come out into the open. Adios Ya,ll

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    @FunnyWalker1949

    January 11, 2024 at 1:16 am

    It helps to understand global temperature changes and impact on settlement and exploration and migration.

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    @Chacarruna

    January 11, 2024 at 10:38 pm

    I will not argue that Vikings reaching America was a feat. However, it would be just a footnote in history. Other people may have reached America and leave virtually no trace, Europeans such Irish, English, Welsh… But why to stop there, Chinese may have reached America before Columbus, Polynesians, Phoenicians, Egyptians. Ultimately, even if that happened , that would not change the history. America was already discovered by the First Nations. And looking after Columbus, if not Spain, it would have been Portugal, or England, or the Netherlands… ultimately Scandinavians in America did not leave significant trace, historical or genetic.

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    @finncarlbomholtsrensen1188

    January 12, 2024 at 6:16 pm

    Norwegian Excavator on Newfoundland, Helge Ingstad, with his wife, Anne Stine, found a weight made from a Norwegian type Stone in the turf houses, so it is a fact that Europeans had lived there and made clothing during that, with traditional equipment.

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    @Luciopiacenza333

    January 13, 2024 at 5:48 am

    What happened before colon? I am very sure that the Inhabitants of America were happier than after the Europeans arrived.😂

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    @marciocorrea8531

    January 14, 2024 at 2:09 am

    Ok, let´s open the list: atlanteans, phoenicians, romans, irishmen, vikings, chinese, viets, etc.

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    @GeraldBoone-qy2yt

    January 14, 2024 at 6:37 pm

    These are no facts. Just conjecture y people who want it to be so.

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    @62wyo

    January 14, 2024 at 7:30 pm

    You need to add your description of Columbus, “murderer” this is a proven fact he was a murder. He genocide, many, many, many, many, tribes! He was NOT a hero!!!!

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    @Clover12346

    January 14, 2024 at 8:09 pm

    Can we not just use the name Canada in describing these early explorations.

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    @Clover12346

    January 14, 2024 at 8:24 pm

    Indians? Try indigenous. When was this filmed?

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    @Roland-ji7pc

    January 18, 2024 at 6:26 pm

    Vinland: grapes in Labrador? Come on, who are you fooling?

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    @fortnitefails5512

    January 23, 2024 at 7:28 pm

    And is anyone going to talk about Columbus finding HINDUS in Jamaica? I would have thought it was India too, if i found that.

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    @pagedown4195

    January 27, 2024 at 2:12 pm

    Those vikings was bad ass traveling those distances in those small boats.

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    @breytner07

    January 28, 2024 at 11:51 pm

    Why does it have to be an European? Whatever is this, or that . But, he has to be European…

    Why can't it be the people that were here Already? We don't say that a Mongolian discovered Europe?

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    @steffenwolffe507

    February 3, 2024 at 6:28 am

    so here's a thought: We have known Columbus wasn't the first for several years now, yet to the best of my knowledge, schools are still teaching that he was. The education system hasn't been updated, so our youth are learning the wrong account of history.
    If we have known for years about earlier people landing on these shores, why are the school administrators willingly refusing to teach proper historical facts? If the internet is getting more accurate information into the minds of the growing Humans in any progressive way that exceeds the public (and even private) educational standards, then something needs to change. We shouldn't be sending our kids to public school to come home with hours of homework, and still nod be educated properly because of the books they bring home that are sadly filled with untruths that no one ever thinks should be updated. To be honest, we should do away with the schools anyways, and bring the education standards to what they were before Rockefeller created the board of education. Look that up because that's too much non-related to this video stuff to type out, but it does have bearing on the failure called "public school". and no, I will not blame the teachers for anything other than not speaking up to make sure the information they were teaching was up to date regardless of subject.

    And this isn't the only subject to be concerned with. I'll just say there is NO subject that is current in the schools. (Except maybe math, that never changes.)

    More videos like this need to be out there since school can't teach accuracy of our planet's historical facts..
    Mohawk people, members of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, were well acquainted with the size of this land. They engaged in trade and commerce far into the continental interior and reaching the Gulf Coast. They had gathered sufficient information to refer to North America as “Anowara:kowa” the Great Turtle.
    
    The naming of the Americas, or America, occurred shortly after Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal.
    
    Two names that America could have received before the arrival of the Europeans were Zuania (of Caribbean origin) and Abya-Yala (used by the Kuna people of Panama).
    
    In 1977, the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (Consejo Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas) proposed using the term Abya Yala instead of "America" when referring to the continent. There are also names in other indigenous languages such as Ixachitlan and Runa Pacha.

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    @HoulieMon

    February 3, 2024 at 2:56 pm

    It's amazing how badly they are trying to take it away from Columbus ! No real proof has been found that others were truly here !

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    @MrHowardking

    February 14, 2024 at 2:41 pm

    Head south to the Cape Verde Islands, turn west, and the trade winds and currents will, after 20 to 30 days, deliver you to the West Indies. This is a fact I did it myself in 1967 on a 36 ft long sailboat having started from Gibraltar.

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    @vitorcandido100

    February 19, 2024 at 3:15 pm

    During 1479 or 1480 Columbus married the Portuguese Felipa Moniz Perestrello, a kinswoman of Bartholomew Perestrello, one of Prince Henrys navigators. This Navigator Father of Colombos wife was a Guardian of Portuguese Maps. That is very relevant for your video and was Ignored. Chronicles say that the Portuguese King didn’t help Colombo Because other Portuguese sailors were already mapping America at that time. The big earthquake of 1745 in Lisbon destroyed most of the Portuguese secret maps where this new lands should be draw.

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    @thomasgoebel6992

    February 21, 2024 at 1:11 am

    And yet… nobody ever mentioned that Diogo de Teive (1452), João Vaz Corte-Real (1470), Joao FERNANDES and Pedro de Barcelos (1493), Portuguese explorers, reached Canada in the years mentioned above.
    Also, there is a strong possibility that Phoenicians also set foot in the Americas hundreds of years B.C.
    Evidence found in the Azorean Islands suggests that Phoenicians lived there and some legends in Central America also mentioned people coming from the Sea long before Columbus.

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    @charlieterry6483

    February 21, 2024 at 4:15 pm

    the truth is the land was already inhabited by people the only thing the explorers did was document their travels and take credit as usual<<

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    @jrfairley03

    February 24, 2024 at 5:54 am

    Research the Kensington Runestone in Alexandria Minnesota.

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    @sgrowe56

    March 7, 2024 at 2:37 am

    DeSoto Falls near Mentone, AL is actually in Alabama, and Mobile Bay, next to the city of Mobile Alabama is correctly pronounced "Mo-Beal' ". It's more generally thought that after Madoc entered Mobile Bay and proceeded up the Alabama River, he went northeasterly up the Coosa River (rather than northwesterly up the Tombigbee River, as illustrated on the map) where he reached De Soto Falls, then from there went a short ways north to intersect the Tennessee River near present day Chattanooga, TN.

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