Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "Enslaved Icelander Describes Horror of Barbary Pirate Raid (1627) // Diary of Ólafur Egilsson" video.

@alphapred Documentation on the mosques, please. If it never made it into the ships logs, it didn’t happen.
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@alphapred Nobody thought the world was flat until the internet became popular.
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@alphapred The pyramids were actually a terrible waste of labor and treasure for the Egyptians. All that science, engineering, hard labor, and for what? A giant mausoleum. At least the Aztecs used their pyramids for worthy purposes.
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@idir_ath_vrahim It would not shock me in the slightest if the Berbers were aware of the new world pre Columbus.
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@alphapred Or misguided and oppressive. If a slaves life holds no value to a master, anything can be built for any purpose.
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@hanikrummi hundursvin GFY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Janszoon The man and his Muslim wife are literally like Pocahontas or the Pilgrims or Quakers in that most of North America is descended from them. No him=no modern world.
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@idir_ath_vrahim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuane_Pizzigano Look at the map. If you compare the east coast of Satanazes to the coastline of Delmarva, New Jersey and New York, it comes up looking very similar. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese fishermen were already well aware of the new world about one hundred years prior to Columbus.
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@alphapred Just read it. Good catch there. Once again, it would not surprise me if this holds water because the Pizzagano chart information HAD to come from somewhere, and if you look at it carefully you can see which lands are hypothetical and which are real. Brasil is not real because it has no definition to it, while Satanazes is because of the presence of rivers and harbors. My guess is that initial contact was started under Mansa Musa then transferred to the Western European powers of the time, but kept secret. Columbus was simply the first official one to make the journey across.
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