Comments by "Andy Babb" (@Andy_Babb) on "First before Columbus - The True Discoverers of America | History Documentary" video.

@kaloarepo288 i mean, it’s pretty basic to understand that as a sailor Columbus would have known the stories of accounts of lands to the west. Merchants and sailors of that time had plenty of knowledge of other sailors and merchants accounts. It may have just been legend at that point, but he most certainly would have known the stories. What Columbus DOES deserve credit for was beginning the genocide and systematic enslavement of an entire race of people whom he deemed as inferior.
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@dawsondetrana5496 ohhhh they forgot! If only they had sticky notes. So Vikings had hundreds of stories that they passed down from generation to generation for over a thousand years without losing details… but it toooootally slipped their mind to mention or record that they found land to the west full of resources. I mean, aside from the world famous Vinland Map they made showing land to the west. And aside from the stories they DID pass down telling of lands to the west. But other than that, yeah, they totally forgot!
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Columbus never stepped foot on North America. He’d probably heard legends or stories of lands to the west from Scandinavian merchants. But I agree with you… it’s time to change the name of Columbus Day to Viking Day lol
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@kaloarepo288 ok? Not sure how that changes anything I said. So we should celebrate that he was a murderous salver that “discovered” something that’d already been found and never actually set foot on North America? The fact that it’s happened throughout history still doesn’t change anything I said
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riverbend thank you! I feel sometimes like people just decide they like their version of history better than the real story, so eff it, they’ll just stick with the fiction. The stories of lands to the west would have been shared between merchants and sailors. He also never thought the earth was flat.
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@stiannobelisto573 some of us in the west* There are those who don’t understand what’s wrong with the confederate flag - while claiming they love America lol there are a frighteningly large number of people who think enslaved peoples in the US were happy to be there and singing songs in the fields. History is becoming less and less important to people
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@paulw314 there’s no evidence that China made it the Americas
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@irishdivajeffries6668 I agree. Exactly.
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@anti-Russia-sigma I think that’s who they believe may have created the white sands prints? I’m not sure tbh. But yeah, there’s becoming a LOT more evidence of that being the case. Considering they were clearly traveling east and inhabiting the islands they came across, I don’t see why it would be unreasonable for a seafaring culture to eventually be able to reach the Americas. Seems logical actually. I think it’s so fascinating that we’re able to keep learning more and more of the history of human migration out of Africa, and how/when we moved, separated into different races and cultures, the societies that developed and how the land and the climate played a role in why we all developed different physical and physiological traits to help us thrive in the various environments we were in… sorry haha like I said, I just find it all fascinating
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@jhrusa8125 you said it perfectly.
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@danielefabbro822 i don’t see a single reputable source saying that it’s definitely Roman era. If real archaeologists do come out and say that there is some merit to this, I will gladly sing a different tune bc that would be absolutely fascinating. I hope it is true. But I don’t see anything that tells me it is - just that it’s “thought by some” to be Roman era. And if I do happen to find some reputable sources that say it’s even likely, I promise I’ll amend this comment lol I’m definitely intrigued bc I believe there’s a lot of evidence to point to Indonesian or southern Asian explorers coming to and inhabiting South America. The white sands footprints are REALLY fascinating and there are a lot of reliable experts who are working on studying them to find out who they could be from. There’s a pretty new documentary by Nova I recommend if you haven’t seen it. The title is “Ice Age Footprints”.
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