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So this has always been a thought than vexed me. What if a lost European sailing ship from pre-Roman times until say 1300 carried by storm ends up on the shore's of the Americas? It needn't have large consequences.

But to play the scenario-let's say this around AD 350 a sailing ship just west of the pillars of Hercules gets caught in a storm they struggle and struggle but eventually are carried by the currents and reach landfall at say modern South Carolina.

Do they survive? Do they impact the genetic composition of the native Americans even minutely? Like 0.00000000000025%

So how plausible is this idea? And what are the consequences?
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