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New Study Says Chinese Muslim Discovered America 71 Years Before Columbus
ecrazy:
--- Quote from: OneHittaSpitta on May 05, 2005, 09:26:34 PM ---it really shows how people think of Native Americans. This land basically didnt exist until a whiteman "discovered" it.
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Good Point, i was thinking something along those lines as well
Real American:
--- Quote from: Abdul Infinite aka Ibn Battuta on May 05, 2005, 02:47:22 PM ---Ya'll need to chill out... not one word was my own, I just posted the article. Like Overseer said, how can you "discover" something when people are already there?
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If you don't know that something exists and then you find it, that is making a discovery.
It doesn't matter that Indians were living there, he found something that he didn't know existed. People on both sides of the Atlantic didn't know about each other, so Columbus made a discovery. Is it really that difficult to understand?
Low Key:
Who cares? They aren't gonna change history books cause of the discovery.
They should, they won't
who cares, let's smoke 8)
Z the laidback Virus:
This was allready known.
Anyways, Columbus will allways get credited because he was the one that discovered America for the western world.
There's no account for native Americans or Chinese in that context. Vikings are western but were a isolated part of the western world at the time,so don't really count.
Low Key:
--- Quote from: Z the laidback Virus on May 06, 2005, 03:22:39 PM ---This was allready known.
Anyways, Columbus will allways get credited because he was the one that discovered America for the western world.
There's no account for native Americans or Chinese in that context. Vikings are western but were a isolated part of the western world at the time,so don't really count.
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I hadn't heard anything about the Chinese getting to America first, but around 6th grade or so, they were finally teaching us that Leif Garrett (or however you spell it) was here first. It wasn't in any of our books though. Our teacher had to go out of his way to tell us.
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