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Columbus Was (Not) the First to Cross The Atlantic

• dalke 12y ago
  "The important part of this account is the existence of an Arabic speaker among the natives, indicating that there must have been more unrecorded contact between the Arab world and the Americas." Or the account is incorrect. Just like Coronado's "Seven Cities of Cibola" was incorrect, or how Plato's allegory of Atlantis was treated as history. Or perhaps how the Kensington Runestone "proves" that Scandinavian explorers made it to Minnesota. "Early Spanish explorers and pirates recorded abandoned cities in Brazil that had inscriptions identical to the language of the Mandinka (the people of Mali). More inscriptions in the Mandinka language were found in the United States as well." Um. No. Yes, there were abandoned cities. But no, they weren't colonized from Africa any more than space aliens helped built the pyramids. It isn't even internally consistent. In less than 200 years, and even with 2,000 ships (giving what, 100K people?), how did they built cities in Brazil and get up to the US. Did they walk through the Darien gap and the Aztec Empire, or did they have boats that could make it all the way there, but not back to Mali? This web site is mythologizing history to bolster support for Islam. There's no need to fake history. Real Islamic history is impressive enough that it doesn't need to be tarnished by lies.