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1. Who discovered America?
WHO DISCOVERED
AMERICA?
WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?
WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?
16th century map depicting Icelandic explorations and
world view
WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?
Skellig Michael, Irish Monastic Settlement in Kerry
WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?
WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?
"Crop Circle photos and reports courtesy The Crop Circle Connector (cropcircleconnector.com)".
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| Explorer | Date of Exploration | Notes |
| Christopher Columbus | 1492 | 1492 journey (with Nina, Pinta, & Santa Maria) landed in Bahamas & Cuba. Made 3 more journeys from 1493 to 1502. |
| Amerigo Vespucci | 1499 -1501 | Latecomer on exploration scene. Florentine merchant and member of Italian and Portuguese expeditions to New World. Wrote a series of vivid accounts of his travels. Became synonymous with AMERICA when 1507 atlas used his name to identify New World continents. |
| Leif Eriksson & Vikings | circa 1000 a.d | Erik the Red explored Greenland in the mid to late 900s. The Viking settlement at Greenland existed for about 300 years, until the late 1200s. Erik's son Leif traveled from Greenland to what is now Newfoundland, Canada. However, the Vikings never established a permanent presence in North America. |
| Brendan the Navigator | circa 560s a.d. | St. Brendan was an Irish monk who lived from about 484 to 578a.d. Brendan was known for establishing monastic settlements throughout Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England. Apparently, when Brendan was in his eighties, he set out on an expedition in search of the Promise Land, sailing west across the Atlantic. Brendan's journey lasted seven years and some believe he reached the eastern coast of North America. In 1977 Timothy Severin, using only equipment know to the early Celts, made a sea journey from Dingle, Ireland to Newfoundland, Canada. Severin's journey suggests that early Celtic explorations of America were possible. |
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Paleo-Indians |
circa 16,00 to 14,000 b.c.e. | Scientists note that humans are not indigenous to the Western Hemisphere. The first peoples arrived in America sometime between 16,000 and 14,000 b.c.e. Asian hunters apparently traveled across the Bering Land Bridge and into present day Alaska. The Ice Age had lowered ocean levels about 300 feet, making the crossing possible. These Paleo-Indians then migrated throughout North and South America, establishing varied and complex civilizations. |
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Aliens from Outer Space |
75,000 b.c.e | Many pseudo-scientists and conspiracy theorists now believe that the so called "human species" did not originate on earth. Instead, they speculate that alien beings from outer space are the actual progenitors of all human life forms. They point to mysterious crop circles, mysterious statues at Easter Island, mysterious similarities between Incan and Egyptian pyramids as evidence of their claim. Mainly, they seem to believe that by placing the adjective "mysterious" in front of otherwise explainable phenomena and artifacts, their case has been made. |
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