Which groups do you believe discovered America before Columbus

Which groups do you believe discovered America before Columbus besides the norse

  • Romans

    Votes: 19 5.4%
  • Ancient Egyptians

    Votes: 13 3.7%
  • Carthaginians

    Votes: 21 6.0%
  • Phoenicians

    Votes: 32 9.1%
  • Ancient Jews 600s bc

    Votes: 15 4.3%
  • Ming China with Zheng he

    Votes: 45 12.8%
  • Arabs 1300s

    Votes: 19 5.4%
  • Mali 1300s

    Votes: 31 8.8%
  • Irish with saint Brendan

    Votes: 54 15.3%
  • Polynesians

    Votes: 218 61.9%
  • Welsh with king madoc

    Votes: 15 4.3%
  • Various Chinese dynasties

    Votes: 26 7.4%
  • Japanese

    Votes: 23 6.5%
  • ancient Greeks

    Votes: 7 2.0%
  • Stone Age Europeans

    Votes: 47 13.4%
  • Others

    Votes: 101 28.7%
  • No one else

    Votes: 49 13.9%

  • Total voters
    352
  • Poll closed .
As I understand from what I've read about it, the one thing that puts the Irish/St. Brendan theory into semi-seriousness is a single passage in the tale that seems to describe a coral sea; something he would have found only in the West Indies. The real question is if this passage was actually inspired by a coral sea or just fantasizing on the part of some medieval scholar...
 
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