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The chinese discovered america before columbus

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  • #2
    mickymg2003
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭mickymg2003


    I dont believe the irish monk story and that chinese one doesn't hold up So im stickin with the portugese or the spanish.I forget who it actually was,JC history isin't exactly fresh in my brain.


  • #3
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    mickymg2003 wrote:
    that chinese one doesn't hold up
    You have proof, of course?


  • #4
    [Jackass]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,193 ✭✭✭[Jackass]


    Sorry, but unless it's the origional and can be carbon dated to approx. that time, i wouldn't class a date on a piece of paper hundreds of years after that date as a credible source...I.E. approx 350 years after the date of the map it claims to be a copy of...


  • #5
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    I'm going to go with the Vikings on this one.


  • #6
    ilovemybrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ilovemybrick


    i love this idea of "discovering". it was always there and there were natives there for thousands of years before any of the dates that are claimed by coloumbus, vasco,st. brendan, zheng he's fleets or anyone else.


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  • #7
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Meh, everyone knows that Chuck Norris invented and subsequently discovered America in the late 1970's.


  • #8
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    peachypants wrote:
    I'm going to go with the Vikings on this one.

    Yeah me too. ;)


  • #9
    Doper Than U
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Doper Than U


    I heard about the Chinese one a while ago, National Geographic did a piece on it iirc. Interesting stuff alright. The Vikings called America "Vinland" I believe.I have a book on it but haven't got around to reading it yet.


  • #10
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    Doper Than U wrote:
    The Vikings called America "Vinland" I believe.I have a book on it but haven't got around to reading it yet.


    Aye, thats the name of a map of the area believed to have been landed by Leifr Eriksson.....its very interesting.


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