Christopher Columbus

But they didn’t know they were on western hemisphere and didn’t know about Europe, Asia or Africa. Most people in the west hemisphere didn’t even know about the continents they lived on

Actually they did. Records show that some of them migrated from Asia to the Americas by ship.

Polynesians….not necessarily native Americans.

But they knew about both continents.

Polynesians came as far as Hawaii and Easter Island, but there’s no evidence of them in continental Americas. I’d love to see evidence of that. They didn’t necessarily keep records about what they knew. The first European to land in N America were the Vikings but they didn’t record and published their discovery

They weren’t necessarily Polynesians. There are records of groups of people who came to the Americas as long ago as the time of the Tower of Babel.

Duh. There is stories of Carthaginians who have discovered the western hemisphere, but there’s no hard evidence to support that

Ruins in south and Central America are hard evidence that humans thrived here long before Columbus and the people we refer to as Indigenous.

No one is arguing that there were no people in the western hemisphere. The Clovis people came to the western hemisphere before “indigenous people “, but they didn’t recorded their discovery like Columbus did

Unfortunately the records of people who migrated from Asia by ship are dismissed by secular scholars because they are considered religious scripture.

Proof is in Nova Scotia. 1021AD

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-dating-method-shows-vikings-occupied-newfoundland-in-1021-ce-180978903/

Yeah I believe it. It's too bad Erik the Red didn't have more Facebook followers. LOL

LMAO - EXACTLY!

The Vikings never reported it at the time. There’s archeological evidence that they were first Europeans in Americas

You are right, they never held a press conference announcing they went to a land across the ocean. You gotta remember this is way before the printing press. Things were reported, but maybe not necessarily published on a piece of paper.

No, it’s kind of because They didn’t have cartography

Ummm... Judging by the pic... if that's an INCA temple... wasn't that discovered by Francisco Pizarro in 1531?
Aztecs were discovered by Hernán Cortés in 1519'
Mayans were discovered by American John Lloyd Stephens in 1808.

LOL - Well I just got back from there in my Time machine, and they never heard of Europe until those damn Spaniards came.

LOL the people who built them were gone long before they were discovered. And while you were there in your Time Machine, did you happen to ask how they got there?

Yeah. The Inca shaman let on that they came from Paqari-tampu. Fortunately I had just repaired my universal translator that hadn't been working since that stupid Vulcan tried to use it as a flipping can opener.

So, they immigrated from Vulcan? 🖖 LOL

LOL - Touche'

The Vikings settled in Nova Scotia in 1021. What do you think motivated Columbus to sail westward from so far south in Europe. The sailing community likely had long standing rumors of lands to the west. The Vikings also sailed into the Middle East.

LMAO - I'm sure they did (spread rumors), I mean Columbus got the idea from somewhere. But as everything else, you just can't trust what you heard on Facebook in the 15th Century.

TOO DAMN FUNNY!

Columbus never knew that he hadn’t reached Asia. He chose to sail West because the way around Africa had already been monopolized.