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Feb 2, 2023 · Before Columbus, the Americas were a diverse and fascinating place. From the Arctic regions of Canada to the Andes Mountains of South America, different types of state organizations developed among the linguistically and culturally diverse groups of Native Americans. Parts of the Americas built magnificent cities, produced luxury gold jewelry ...
Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that possible visits to the Americas, possible interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—or both—were made by people from Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492 (i.e., during ...
The Black Atlantic explores the truly global experiences that created the African American people.Beginning a full century before the first documented “20-and-odd” slaves arrived at Jamestown ...
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus 's voyage of 1492. Usually, the era covers the history of Indigenous cultures until significant influence by Europeans ...
Feb 27, 2024 · Updated April 26, 2024. When America was "discovered" by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, Viking navigators had already landed on the New World's shores centuries before. Library of Congress While Christopher Columbus is known as the man who discovered America in 1492, Norse explorers had actually reached Newfoundland circa 1000 C.E.
Jan 24, 2024 · This means that people were already becoming infected with endemic syphilis, probably via skin contact, more than 1,000 years before the arrival of Columbus in the New World. Syphilis-like ...
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, by Ivan Van Sertima. Random House, New York, 1977, 289 pages, $15.00. Reviewed by Phillip S. Duke, Ph.D. This astounding, revolutionary book concerns "all the facts that are now known about the links between Africa and America in Pre-Columbian times." Very impressive and well ...
