First before Columbus - The True Discoverers of America | History Documentary

I live in Alaska. Point Hope, in NW Alaska on the Bering Strait, has been continuously inhabited for 15,000 years. The Aleutian Islands were populated by seafaring ancestors of the Unangan people 25 000 years ago. So if we're going to talk about what happened before Columbus we need to mention that the Americas had been populated for thousands of years before he arrived.

Native Americans discovered America first! 😃

History is fascinating but keep in mind that events have always been modified to suit the narrative of current rulers. What we are taught is just a commonly shared opinion of the past and archeological finds are the only source to true knowledge.

Very interesting documentry thanks for updating this..🙏

Columbus didn't just go off into the unknown, there were many reports of lost sailors having found land... Columbus was just the one that set out to document and map it.

Columbus wasn't looking for a new continent. He thought he'd sail straight to Asia.

By the late 1400's Europe had advanced to a point where they could speculate, consider, plan, finance and execute. Following Columbus first voyage in 1492 its incredible how much exploration occurred in the following 30 years, culminating in the Magellan expedition's successful circumnavigation of the globe.

Columbus didn't come up with the idea that the world was round either. Most educated people knew that.

Interesting. But one should also note here that discovery means to make the "discovered" known to the larger public of the world; not "going astray" or "venturing" somewhere and remaining there or keeping the knowledge to a limited sphere.

Very interesting. Thank you.

Poor St Brendan and his monks ignored again,needs the patience of a saint.

I believe my people the indigenous people were hear thosands of years before Vikings and Columbus, why do they say "discovered". Does this mean they discovered our people as they discovered this land?

It doesn't mention the theory that says Polynesians may have reached the coasts of nowadays Chile or Peru, there is evidence of pre Columbian chicken bones that sugest so, it even says Polynesians took potatoes back to their islands and grow it there, which sugests a trade relationship...

It is amazing that these so-called experts always leave out the great Chinese voyages of 1421 and 1434. Ocean ships 800 feet long. A standard modern aircraft carrier is 900 feet long.

Talk about the Phoenicians the sea people who probably in North America over 2,000 years ago they also kept it close to their vest

If it weren't for the Little Ice Age, which began in the early 1300s and extended to the mid nineteenth century, the history of the Americas would be very different. The onset of the cold began when the Norse settlements in Greenland were reaching a critical mass population of between 2,000 and 3,000 inhabitants, and the colony of L'Anse aux Meadows was just getting rooted in and primed for further expansion. Very suddenly the temperatures dropped and within a few decades the sea ice had extended southward, trapping these settlers in lands that were no longer viable for farming, which eventually led to their complete extermination. If the weather had remained mild the odds are very probable that the Norse would have continued their westward expansion, leading the way for settlement by all Europeans centuries before Columbus.

I'm sure someone will have mentioned this already, but both the Scandinavian explorers and the European explorers found upon their arrival that the "Americas" were already inhabited by people whose ancestors had arrived long, long before. The idea that others later "discovered" these lands is unfortunately misleading. It was a new experience - a new discovery - for the Europeans and Scandinavians, maybe, but not for the land's indigenous inhabitants.

The may have been others who "discovered" America first, but they all failed to "get the word out".

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Great show!