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6 days ago · 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 ...
5 days ago · Columbus’s first encounter with the Taíno, in Christopher Columbus arrives in America by Johann Theodor de Bry, 1594. Source: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam In 1493, Columbus brought 1300 men to colonize Hispaniola. By 1503, eleven years after invading the Caribbean islands, the Spanish began a long history of importing enslaved Africans to wor
4 days ago · Columbus searched for a strait through which he could sail, while Balboa hiked across on foot and Magellan sailed through a strait at the tip of South America to reach the Pacific Ocean. Traveling by canoe up the Chagres River and then hiking down from the continental divide to the Pacific side became an established route for both surveyors and ...
2 days ago · New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05167-0. Mann, Charles C. (2005). 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 1-4000-4006-X. Nottage, James H. Diversity and Dialogue: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, 2007.
19 hours ago · The miracle of modern genetics has revolutionized the story anthropologists tell about how humans spread out across the Earth. Through DNA analysis and archaeological discoveries, researchers have been able to trace the migration patterns of early human populations, revealing the intricate connections between different Indigenous groups in North America.
3 days ago · CHAPTER SYNOPSIS The lands that Europeans eventually named the Americas were the home of many millions of people before the arrival of Columbus. Having migrated from Asia thousands of years earlier, the pre-Columbian Americans spread throughout the Western Hemisphere and eventually created great civilizations.
5 days ago · The book put forward a theory that Zheng He discovered America 70 years before Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) did in 1492. Now the old man is preparing his next book about Zheng He's visits to ...
