How Did Columbus Discovering America First Myth

• Columbus discovering America first is a myth.

• There is no doubt Native Americans were here at the time Columbus arrived.

• In the 1400s the Chinese were prosperous, powerful, and had the most advanced ships of their time. In 1421, a Chinese explorer named Zheng He set sail to find new land. Although there is no physical evidence that he ever found and landed on America, he once wrote an entry about traveling the distance, that when statistically retraced only reached a few places that are both parts of America, and meeting barbaric people who could have been the Native Americans. (side note: Although at that time many civilizations were less civilized, how many of them could be described as “barbaric”? There were Native Americans and Vikings; both of which, as you will soon know, arrived and settled in America far before Columbus ever did. It is a possibility that Zheng He saw one of the two peoples wherever he landed at the time.)

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From 1000 A.D. to 1380 A.D. Polynesian voyagers traveled to, and colonized all of them. They were highly mobile, but wind statistics and lack of physical evidence nullifies the theories of them reaching the Americas before Columbus.

• In 1000 A.D., the Vikings were exploring the North Atlantic Ocean, and eventually one of them sailed all the way to North America. Leif Ericson, son of the voyager Aric the Red, started the first Norse settlement in Greenland, and later learned there was land west of Greenland that was never before explored. He then gathered a small group of 35 men and women, and set sail towards North America, specifically, New Finland. Today, the Viking settlement dated 1000 A.D. that Leif founded is called Lawnsaw Meadows. It is living proof that the Vikings made it to North America 492 years before Christopher