Comments by "EdinburghFive" (@EdinburghFive) on "Get.factual" channel.

Where does it say Columbus was the first to get to India?
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Just the "English “claimed it"? What about the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swedes, Danes, Dutch, and Russians?
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Of course both books spew a bunch of bunkum.
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@grahamfleming8139 But Sinclair, according to Pohl, does not venture to Massachusetts. What do CIA codebreakers have to do with a stone structure in Rhode Island? Codebreakers don't have expertise in architecture or archaeology.
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@DinoAlberini I think you mean Australasia.
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@geraldblount4159 How do you figure the "Vikings did not discover America"? Are you thinking the word 'America' somehow exclusively means the USA?
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10,000 years no less! Wow. What were they trading?
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The word 'America' although largely used as a reference to the USA, is not exclusively used in that way.
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Sinclair, but there is absolutely no proof whatsoever to support the idea. It was Frederick J Pohl who promoted this idea in his book ' Prince Henry Sinclair: his Expedition to the New World in 1398'.
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@grahamfleming8139 Where is the "there" you are referring to? In Nova Scotia?
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Asia, Europe, and Africa are one landmass as well but it is still divided into continents. What exactly is your point?
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"Some of the Phoenicians helped found the Missippian mound builders culture."? Where is the proof? The statement smacks of the old nineteenth-century racist attitude that the Indigenous people were not capable of such an advanced culture without the assistance from the western Old World.
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@89128 You are referring to Robert Marx and his claim the Romans made it to Brazil. His claim is primarily based on amphorae found in Guanabara Bay. The amphorae were manufactured in about 1960, and thus are not Roman. Robert Marx was a treasurer hunter and made numerous wild claims in his lifetime.
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Sure you can. If you did not know about it, and neither did others from your part of the world (for example Europe), and then you came across it, you discovered it. This does not negate the fact others were there before you.
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@nanskickstand5393 What is stated isn't even circumstantial. It is just speculation at best and mostly nonsense being feed to a lot of naïve people.
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Please read a little about the Europeans fishing the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and how they had a salting and drying fishery and wet salt fishery.
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The Chinese only arrived in May 2023 (2000 hrs ago)? You clearly have a typo.
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@formxshape which of course would still prove nothing.
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You are mixing up the act of discovery and claiming a place. Places, even with people already there, can be discovered by others. If the rest of the world did not know a place existed and someone then comes across the place, they then discovered it for the rest of the world. In other words they brought the knowledge of the place to the fore.
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@marthawolfsen5809 It may have been the Dorset or even the ancestors of the Innu the Norse called Skraeling. The Thule, the ancestors of the Inuit, migrated into the eastern arctic at the same time or even a bit after the Norse arrive there.
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@mikep3226 Well no, not "All of his expeditions only encountered Caribbean" only. During his fourth voyage he landed in Central America. As Central America is part of the mainland of the continent of North America, he definitely "set foot on the North American mainland." He also set foot on the South American continent, thus his voyages were not just confined to the Caribbean.
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@Andy_Babb To repeat my comment to @mikep3226: Well no, not "All of his expeditions only encountered Caribbean" only. During his fourth voyage he landed in Central America. As Central America is part of the mainland of the continent of North America, he definitely "set foot on the North American mainland." He also set foot on the South American continent, thus his voyages were not just confined to the Caribbean.
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sepulvedablvd7846 It is unlikely he actually made it to Iceland.
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@dawsondetrana5496 Given the Norse lived in North America for the better part of 500 years, they did not forget to tell anyone. The Vatican was well aware of their presence in Greenland as they sent bishops there. Some of the last records out of Greenland were in the early 1400s.
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@Andy_Babb The Vinland map is a fake. But yes, they did not forget to tell anyone.
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@kaloarepo288 The Norse occupation of a part of North America for the better part of 500 years was the fine thread that kept the story alive that there was a landmass far out in the western seas.
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@danielefabbro822 There are no Roman ships found in Brazil or Roman shields and swords found in Nova Scotia. You must be watching way too much "Curse of Oak Island'.
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@paulw314 Can you point to proof the Chinese made it to North America? Please do not reference the Gavin Menzies nonsense.
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@dominict9418 About 500 years before Columbus.
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@danielefabbro822 In the vicinity, more or less.
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@danielefabbro822 LOL
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Archaeology and anthropology has "recorded mankind on earth...[for far] more than ...15,000" years.
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Where is the proof that "Muslims reach[ed] the new land known as America"?
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Let there were vast empires, thus your idea "Separate nations/tribes who claimed separate land zones and lived apart." is bunkum.
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You can point to evidence of this trade that goes back into the 1300s?
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Longhouses are the proof? Can you explain further?
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The Mandan still exist. The whole idea the Mandan had Welsh ancestry is just so much nonsense.
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So you are saying that somehow the many thousands upon thousands of writers of history are all controlled by "current rulers". How is that achievable?
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Your statement could very well be considered as racist, especially given it is based in a very white theology that developed in the nineteenth-century. A theology that until the early 2010s had not fully rejected its racist stance with respect non-whites, particularly Black people.
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