Watching the news they were talking about the NYC "migrant" crisis. Gave some run down on the "facilities", the stuff they were giving them for free, and they listed a few things the "migrants" had access to use. One of the items the show mentioned was......wait for it.......treadmills.
No, they supposedly just walked from {insert country here} and a thousand miles later ended up on our border looking fresh and clean with less stuff than I would carry in a 3 day pack, and their cell phone batteries charged.
Right? If the Indians had gotten off their lazy bug-eating asses and chopped the Dutch into pieces instead of accepting Beads and Schnapps... we'd be the ones running the casino's right now.NYC has had an immigrant crisis since somewhere around 1630.
Here is something I always wonder about. You hear that when the spanish got here there were literally millions of indians like more than the population of Europe, but the spanish dropped off small pox and killed most of them. That damn columbus...bra..bra...bra...
Also the Chinese Star Fleet. And the Vikings were literally driven out of North American by Native attacks. They referred to the Indians as the "Skirlings" or something like that.
Lord Jeffery Amherst, for whom Amherst County Virginia, had the bright idea to give the natives smallox infected blankets one winter. Reduced the numbers significantly.
From what Ive read it was likely the Phoenicians, they were the major sea power of the times, though thats not to say the Egyptians werent as well. Then theres the Olmec's, who were clearly there but from where.
Supposedly but of course that was before germ theory also, but people say that to be deceptive also because before germ theory, they hypothesized that particles from sick people got other people sick.
For some reason, I thought that was completely discredited...
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Looks like Im about 6 hours SE. Might make it a overnighter.
the Phoenecians sailed around Africa and up to the British Isles by 500BC. So it is theoretically possible, although they did hug the coast
Indians got smallpox from the first moment that the Europeans arrived. Nobody had to give them a special dose. When the Pilgrims landed, they set foot in the territory of a powerful confederation which had been largely wiped out by epidemics brought there decades earlier from the first explorers and even Basque fishermen who sailed over in the 1500's.
Valid point. I looked into sailing in the Caribbean and learned a bit about the currents. If you sail out from Gibraltar and head south you pick up those westerlies and lo and behold they take you right to the areas a lot of the early Mexican/Central American cultures began. Getting back to Europe is a bit more tricky.
It looked wrong when I was typing, I wondered if it should start with an A.
