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hello and welcome to history in seven
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check out this playlist watch the entire
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common knowledge that the Genovese
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Explorer Christopher Columbus was the
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one who discovered America in 1492 but
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at the same time this is wrong
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centuries before he was even born others
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already set foot on the grounds of the
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new world in some ways it is true that
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Columbus's discovery gave birth to the
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new world as it set in motion a wave of
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colonial expansionism
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but he wasn't the first European to set
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foot there nor was he trying to prove
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that the earth is round people already
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knew that he was simply trying to find a
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new shorter way to sail towards Asia not
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for the sake of discovery but for
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financial reasons and by the way one
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more little detail Columbus first set
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foot on San Salvador in the Bahamas not
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the mainland and not on present-day US
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territory on the other hand the term
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discovery doesn't really fit into this
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picture either the Americas have been
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inhabited by people for at least 20,000
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years
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today we know that ancient civilizations
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such as the Egyptians or Phoenicians did
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have the means to get to America some of
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their ships were indeed capable of a
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transatlantic sailing so there have been
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speculations that they might have
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actually made the trip but the lack of
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evidence dismisses the idea for now but
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in the case of the Romans there might be
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some hints that they made it the Roman
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Empire once stretched from Hadrian's
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Wall between England and Scotland all
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the way to the deserts of Syria so they
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had to build large sturdy ships in order
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to cross the Mediterranean Sea and sail
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in rough waters some Roman galleys were
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as big as the 18th century warships so
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it's quite likely that these ships could
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have survived a trip to America but
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there are no written records of such a
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trip nor will they found any remains of
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Roman settlements anywhere in the
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Americas but there was one thing that
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spurred the imagination of many
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archaeologists a small terra cotta
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figurine of a man's head found in the
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Toluca Valley in Mexico in 1933 this
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head is very very similar to the style
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of statues and figurines made in the
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greco-roman world using a method called
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thermoluminescence scientists
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established the figuring state of
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creation 200 AD this again matches the
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style of the head with that present in
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the Roman Empire in this era but how the
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hell did such a figurine end up in
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Mexico the soil in which it was found
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was dated to sometime around 1510
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shortly before any Europeans reached
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this area could this be proof that Roman
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galleys visited Mexico 1,800 years ago
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well the Romans were a messy bunch they
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always left lots of traces wherever they
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went so we should find more than just a
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small clay head most probably this
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figurine drifted from a shipwreck all
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the way to Mexico where someone found it
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but it needs to be said that a Roman
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contact with the Americas hasn't
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vinick's
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yet there's another civilization that we
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know for sure visited America before
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Columbus the Vikings the evidence in
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this case is undeniable and is
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corroborated by the tales found in the
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saga of the Greenlanders according to
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these writings the first discovery was
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accidental in the year 1986 ad an
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Icelandic merchant BR Denis Ariel son
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left Norway to go home but when he
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reached Iceland he found that his father
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Harry Uhl left to join a new colony in
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Greenland so he decided pretty much on
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the spot to go after him but on his way
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he got lost and drifted on a different
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course one that pushed him on the shores
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of a hilly and forested land he didn't
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land on these shores but the description
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of his travel enticed an Explorer Leif
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Ericson he bought Bernie's ship and in
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the year 1000 he and his crew of 35 left
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Iceland in search of this new land the
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evidence we found today point to the
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Canadian shores to be this new found
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land the remains of an entire
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scandinavian colony was found at glance
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amador in newfoundland in an area that
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looks like the descriptions from the
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saga the colony could fit some 100
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people was built in the style that
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matches scandinavian villages from one
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millennium ago and carbon dating 'he's
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come up with the same date so there's
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pretty much no dispute that Norseman set
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foot in America long before Columbus did
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description ok now we can move on to the
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next fact there are other more disputed
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proofs of annos inclusion in North
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America in 1958 an antiquarian put up
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for sale on old parchment that displayed
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the European continent
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it was immediately bought by
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philanthropist Paul Mellon who donated
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it to Yale University there it was
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analyzed and was declared to be an
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authentic Scandinavian map from the mid
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15th century that shows a part of North
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America in the upper left corner west of
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Greenland an island called Vinland is
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clearly visible and is described to be
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the land discovered by Bernini and life
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where vines grow plenty hence its name
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there have been disputes about the
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authenticity of this map but to this day
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it hasn't been disproven this map is
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real and so some Europeans of the time
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did have knowledge about the land beyond
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Greenland
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but we're still not done with the
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Vikings in the ruins of the Norse colony
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in Newfoundland three knots of a
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tropical species have been found
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although they shouldn't exist there this
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indicates that these Vikings might have
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explored way beyond what we think today
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1600 kilometers to the south in Maine a
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single Norse coin called the Maine penny
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was found at the very least this proves
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that the Vikings made contact and
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possibly traded with the local natives
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the coin was of Norwegian origin minted
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between 1067 and 1092 and was found
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together with native tools and pottery
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so the Vikings definitely visited
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America settled there and made contact
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with the locals but their
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accomplishments weren't meant to last
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today no trace of their influence can be
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found in the new world okay so what
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about other civilizations did anyone
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else visit the Americas before Columbus
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possibly there was one mighty
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civilization that had extraordinary
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sailing skills the Chinese Empire in
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1421 emperor zhudi ordered an immense
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fleet to sail from nanjing to escort a
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group of ambassadors home after this
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mission they were ordered to set sail to
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the end of the world to collect taxes
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from barbarians over the sea Admiral
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John Hare was in command of this large
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fleet of advanced ships equipped with
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magnetic compasses and detailed maps we
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don't know how far did this fleet go but
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we do know that after they returned
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about one year later China's policy of
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intense exploration just stopped and the
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Empire entered an era of isolation that
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was to last 600 years could jenkees
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ships have reached America 150
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kilometers inland at the bottom of the
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Sacramento River the remains of a
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possibly Chinese vessel lie undisturbed
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small wooden remains have been recovered
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and were dated to around the Year 1410
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it was also established that the wood
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came from a cattle area tree a pine tree
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that only grows
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in southeast China but amazingly there
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is still a debate whether there is a
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shipwreck on the bottom of the river in
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the first place so far this theory has
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been labeled as a ludicrous idea with no
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evidence to back it up
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there are however what seemed to be
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traces of a Chinese language in the
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dialect of Native Americans from
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California this at least indicates some
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contact between these two worlds a much
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more striking evidence of China's
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knowledge of America comes from a
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historian Matt one lean in volume 231 of
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the great Chinese encyclopedia there's a
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mention of a Buddhist priest Oh Asian
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who in the year 458 left China to spread
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the word of Buddha he crossed the Great
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Sea of the east and came back 40 years
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later with incredible tales of a country
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called foo sang he talked about an arid
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landscape dominated by the full Sun
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plant the succulent plants fruit looks
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somewhat like a pear but red in color
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and the tree bark can be used to make
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textiles he might have been talking
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about the agave Americana plant a
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species still widely spread around
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Mexico the priest also mentioned that
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there were no sources of ayran in this
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area and amazingly parts of Central
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America are indeed among the very few
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places on earth where this mineral
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cannot be found the people of foo sang
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were called itchy and were peaceful the
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it's a tribe lived in Central America at
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the time and were indeed a peaceful
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nation PO Asian strip was 20,000 days
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long which is roughly 14,000 kilometers
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which puts full sang somewhere in
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Central America such tales and other
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subtle hints of America can be found in
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historic records and it's clear that
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America was discovered and rediscovered
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many times throughout history
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I hope this video was interesting enough
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to have inspired you to look into it
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further on your own if you liked it
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