What happens now???

[minks]

If the below is found to be true.

http://www.afghanmania.com/en/news/0,news,4180,00.html

Afghans discovered America a thousand years before Christopher

08.02.2005 Popular history believes that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492 while searching for India. This theory is however likely to be challenged soon with the publication of a book 'An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas' by Gary Geddes. Geddes argues that Afghan Buddhist monks had traveled to the American Continent a thousand years before Christopher Columbus.

Afghan historians and researchers have also confirmed the idea. The late Abdul Shakoor Rashad, doyen of Afghan historians with 30 books on history and literature to his credit, had written about this theory on several occasions, contending that Afghan monks had reached America through China.

Geddes, a poet and a historian visited Afghanistan in 2001 during the Taliban regime to collect material for his book. Geddes has investigated Rashad's idea and studied the route on which the Afghan monks reached the coast of America through China, collecting evidence to back his theory.

A group of five Buddhist monks led by Hu Shin went to China from Kabul via the Silk Route in 458 A.D. and from there they got to the American coastlines of the Pacific Ocean by sea. This group toured Canada and America on foot and ended up in the Chiapas province of Mexico he says.

Academics have earlier also discussed the journey of people from the Asian coastlines of the Pacific to America and the release of the new book will bring new evidence to the debate.

The Canada Desk Director in the Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan, Mohammad Hassan Sobman, who helped Geddes in collection of the material, say the book will bring Afghanistan on the center stage internationally.

"Afghanistan has been put back on the stage after decades of isolation and now with disclosure of the fact that Afghans were the first discoverers of America, the country will be never drop off the map", Sobman said.

Afghan artist, Mohammad Yousuf Asifi, appreciating the writer's efforts, told Pajhwok that the historical monuments excavated from Afghanistan shows that Afghanistan was pioneer of other countries in religious affairs. "We have left back a strong history.," he said.

He asked Afghan researchers and historians to embark on in-depth investigations and demonstrate to the world a clear picture and identity of Afghanistan.

[Raven]

LOL!! People are STILL leaving out the fact that you cant 'discover' a place that already has people on it! The native americans have always been there. It's THEIR country. The only people they seemed to have failed repelling was the europeans. They overwhelmed them by sheer numbers.

[minks]

good point Rave and no one makes a big to do about how the Native Americans got here now do they.

Sheesh humans what a bunch of bone heads.

[minks]

mzsandeestar wrote: It really helps to show how all people are related. I ffound it interesting . I never thought much about a connection between middle eastern people and native Americans.


Yes it is amazing, I have a friend from afghanastan, and our accountant from China, they have incredibly similar features then look at the eskimo people and see the similarities there as well.

[David813]

It's fairly common knowledge that the Native Americans came from central Asia over the once frozen land bridge connecting Alaska with Siberia. I hadn't heard of them coming from as far southwest as Afghanistan though. Fascinating!

[Wolverine]

Raven wrote: LOL!! People are STILL leaving out the fact that you cant 'discover' a place that already has people on it! The native americans have always been there. It's THEIR country. The only people they seemed to have failed repelling was the europeans. They overwhelmed them by sheer numbers.
sheer numbers and disease. you can't leave out the plagues the early Europeans unleashed on the Native Americans

[BTS]

Wolverine wrote: sheer numbers and disease. you can't leave out the plagues the early Europeans unleashed on the Native Americans
Yes you are right Wolverine...........our ancestors sure did bring plagues and all sorts of nasty things with them. Like the grit to form a great country like no other in the whole world.



Is your point that they unleashed them (plagues) here knowing they were going to infest the red man? Or is it that the continent would be better off if it was never settled?