Who came before Columbus? Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact

watch me butcher multiple languages here

kinda sloppily edited but i wanted to get a new video out quickly

00:00 Introduction
00:33 Initial peopling of the Americas
2:30 Norse contact and settlement
6:11 Trans-Bering Strait contact
10:13 Polynesian contact
15:04 Japanese shipwrecks
17:10 Other contact theories

[therussian]

Great video, I love history channels with niche content, I look foward to seeing what you make next

[riowhi]

Horses actually evolved in North America and migrated to Eurasia when sea levels were low. During the ice age, they naturally died out in North America, but remained in Eurasia and eventually became accustomed to the Eurasian steppe (similar in topography to the North American plains), where they were domesticated by humans. Imagine if horses survived in North America, and the incoming Paleo-Americans were able to learn how to domesticate & ride them. I wouldn't say this would lead to them definitely surviving, but it could possibly have accelerated the speed at which American civilizations & therefore technology developed.

[possum]

Tribes along the Pacific NorthWest would make armor out of Chinese coins that washed ashore from shipwrecks

[AnneFrankthend]

Really good video. The only thing I would add is that the Norse likely discovered the Azores centuries before the Portuguese as well.

[baconsinatra]

I would love an in depth video of the evidence free, crack pot theories about the romans or welsh

[Mrbluebro]

Whats the music from the japanese shipwrecks

[lordcarve]

If the earth is curved how come they can see across the Bering straight?

[erikhesjedal]

The Norse went all the way to south america. They even had a small fishing village with traps and all up river from Boston, USA

[cathyrogers]

Very interesting video. I think that we would know more about the migration through Beringia if we could get to the coast of North America that was there a that time. Alas, it is all under water.

[tazkrebbeks]

I'm sure it's a great documentary. Unfortunately. The volume was so low I couldn't hear it. So I didn't watch it
😢

[DanH-uf]

Native Americans came about 30k years before everyone else.

[SoyElZarkoStudio]

Theres no documents that says that the native Americans were there tens of thousands of years before Columbus come on dude, you should add the years from the book of noah up the time of Joshua and you will see amd compare it qith the rest of the world