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is now being said that perhaps the Chinese beat Columbus to America, but? we have heard this before, about the Vikings, and the Irish. There is also the plausable theory that 2 royal brothers of a Welsh king got here, near Louisiana, in 1169. Evidence in the form of their clothing and other artifacts are said to have been found.
http://history.howstuffworks.com/european-history/chinese-beat-columbus.htm
What theory do you find most plausable and therefore which do you believe?
 
The stories of the Chinese arriving in America are pure fantasy. Most of the evidence Menzies uses in his far too often read book is merely circumstantial.

The idea of the vikings arriving in America in the 11th century are far more plausible, especially since we've found their early settlements and we know they could, and did, travel to both Iceland and Greenland. It would have been a small matter to make the short hop to Canada.

I haven't heard stories of the Irish or Welsh getting to America in the 12th century, sounds like a lot of hot air.
 
The Ideas of founding or finding are different, founding implies you found it, survived and returned to tell the tale, which the Vikings and Columbus did, everyone else found it and died. But the real props go to Columbus, b/c he opened the way for real colonization.
 
The Chinese certainly had the ability to sail to the Americas; during the period of Chinese world exploration they sent out expeditions whose routes and discoveries are now lost to history.

Having said that, it really wouldn't matter much in the end. The Chinese neither shared nor exploited the discoveries any expedition to America found. Columbus matters because his voyage changed the world
 
I never really believed the Viking thing before. But there are remains of their communities in the Northeast. The American Indian's off-continent ancestry is Asian, so we know that the land bridge was quite plausible. But I never heard of the Chinese coming to North America, and then leaving again.
 
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