Researchers find evidence: Ancient China discovered America

Jude,

Aren't you forgetting the Vikings in there somewhere? About the 10th Century or so. There is some research somewhere I have seen, I will see if I can find it. But there is an old indian tribe in the northern half of the americas that had viking materials. I might be wrong but I will see if I can find it. 

Jude,

It was a time in world history that it was killing, conquering, and pillaging was the norm. The takeover of land, and resources was SOP. Even for native Americans. They fought each other all the time over land. It always surprises me today when someone says native americans were here first, and we should give back everything we took. We could always rearrange the whole planet back to the stone age to. The same people seem to turn a blind eye to the fact it still happens today. 

Most of everything in this and regards slavery is political for what it will get the politician's and the result they want. Slavery goes on today, and its crickets from politicians, media, and families with slave history. Slavery is a blight on the world not just the US. With political ambitions comes a false narrative and historical facts. When someone tells me we should give back the land to native americans I always tell them native americans are an oxymoron. There is no such person, your native or american you can't be both when america was established after natives were already here.

What killed most natives and Aztecs was the diseases brought from the east. Those nasty Spaniards, kill, conquer, then leave your diseases behind. In reality the world still isn't a very nice place, and not a lot has changed, in most cases we just call it something different. In days of old it was kill and conquer, today it's called a caliphate.      

727sky,

Good find, thanks for sharing!!

We have always wondered how they figured Columbus should get credit for discovering the America's

Like this old map too...

fc/chin

Theres even documentation of it in the accounts of zheng he from the early ming dynasty a few centuries before columbus ....