1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,460 Visita Mikael Books en Facebook para ver más contenido de libros en inglés. 2 00:00:04,620 --> 00:00:08,320 Unit 5. Page 69. Read. 3 00:00:09,460 --> 00:00:12,220 Who really discovered America? 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:16,080 A well-known school rhyme goes like this. 5 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:24,020 In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and then discovered America. 6 00:00:24,020 --> 00:00:31,600 However, Columbus may not have been the first non-Native American to visit the Western Hemisphere. 7 00:00:32,740 --> 00:00:38,320 So many other potential discoverers have been nominated that the question might almost be 8 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,240 rephrased as, who didn't discover America? 9 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:44,000 What does history show? 10 00:00:44,660 --> 00:00:46,980 Who really discovered the New World? 11 00:00:47,380 --> 00:00:52,960 Those suggested include the Vikings, the Japanese, the Chinese, 12 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:58,960 the Egyptians, the Hebrews, the Portuguese, and some Irish monks. 13 00:01:00,460 --> 00:01:03,100 The Vikings are the best-known contenders. 14 00:01:04,020 --> 00:01:10,960 Evidence suggests that Leif Erikson and cohorts visited the New World about the year 1000, 15 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:14,740 almost 500 years before Columbus. 16 00:01:15,940 --> 00:01:21,460 Viking records and New World artifacts indicate they arrived at a place they named 17 00:01:21,460 --> 00:01:22,940 Vinland the Good. 18 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,000 The Land of Grapes. 19 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,920 Scholars originally hypothesized that Vinland must have been New Finland. 20 00:01:32,140 --> 00:01:36,880 Today, however, it is believed that Vinland couldn't have been that island, 21 00:01:37,300 --> 00:01:40,080 since it is too far north for grapes to grow. 22 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,040 Could the climate have been warmer in Erikson's day? 23 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:45,020 Perhaps. 24 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:51,080 However, current thought is that Vinland may have been the New England coast. 25 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:52,940 The Grapes. 26 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,760 Japanese are more recent candidates. 27 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:03,880 Pottery fragments discovered in 1956 on the coast of Ecuador date back about 5000 years. 28 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:08,720 These fragments resembled Japanese pottery of the same era, 29 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:13,000 and it has been established that there was no native pottery in 30 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:15,840 Ecuador in 3000 BCE. 31 00:02:16,980 --> 00:02:19,900 Could the Japanese have introduced it? 32 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,260 Smithsonian Institute scholars believe they followed the Jews' tradition. 33 00:02:22,260 --> 00:02:22,300 They found words like 코. 34 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:22,500 They found economic and economic issues. 35 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:29,180 scholars conclude that individuals may have sailed from japan across the pacific to ecuador 36 00:02:29,180 --> 00:02:38,720 or japanese fishermen might have been swept out to sea and carried 10 000 miles 16 093 kilometers 37 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:46,420 across the ocean this theory may sound unlikely and may eventually be disproved 38 00:02:46,420 --> 00:02:54,860 nonetheless the pottery evidence must mean something one interesting theory stems from 39 00:02:54,860 --> 00:03:03,020 the story of saint brendan a 6th century irish monk who made many voyages to establish monasteries 40 00:03:03,020 --> 00:03:11,280 a 6th century document suggests that brendan made a journey far out into the atlantic reports of 41 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:16,400 which may have influenced columbus to believe that there really was a new world 42 00:03:16,420 --> 00:03:24,100 brendan and his fellow monks saw sea monsters crystals rising up into the sky 43 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:33,640 and a rain of bad smelling rocks in 1976 british navigation scholar tim severin 44 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:39,380 decided to see if brendan and his companions could really have accomplished this voyage 45 00:03:39,380 --> 00:03:46,400 using the specifications described in the saint brendan text they built a curah 46 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:55,160 an irish leather boat and attempted the journey on the way they passed greenland and wintered in 47 00:03:55,160 --> 00:04:03,240 iceland where they saw whales a volcano and icebergs they theorized that brendan's sea 48 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:12,080 monsters might have been whales the ice crystals icebergs and the bad smelling rocks volcanic debris 49 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:16,080 severin's group did eventually get to know the story of the sea monster and his companions 50 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:22,800 brendan and his companions were able to get to newfoundland proving that a curah could have made the journey to north america 51 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:32,480 religious artifacts and stone carvings bearing vocabulary and grammatical constructions from old irish have been found in virginia 52 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:42,480 this suggests that other missionaries could have gone to the new world after brendan's return thus the story may be true 53 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,360 but back to the original question 54 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:45,440 but back to the original question 55 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:45,520 but back to the original question 56 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:46,060 but back to the original question who really 57 00:04:46,060 --> 00:04:46,080 who really 58 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,820 who really discovered the new world 59 00:04:48,820 --> 00:04:48,840 discovered the new world 60 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:51,580 discovered the new world future research should get us closer to an 61 00:04:51,580 --> 00:04:51,600 future research should get us closer to an 62 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:52,900 future research should get us closer to an answer 63 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:52,920 answer 64 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,420 answer columbus and the others mentioned above 65 00:04:55,420 --> 00:04:55,440 columbus and the others mentioned above 66 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,980 columbus and the others mentioned above did not of course really discover 67 00:04:57,980 --> 00:04:58,000 did not of course really discover 68 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,700 did not of course really discover america the real finders were the native 69 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:01,720 america the real finders were the native 70 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:02,700 america the real finders were the native americans 71 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:02,720 americans 72 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,340 americans who migrated across the bering strait 73 00:05:05,340 --> 00:05:05,360 who migrated across the bering strait 74 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,460 who migrated across the bering strait more than 10 000 years ago 75 00:05:08,460 --> 00:05:08,480 more than 10 000 years ago 76 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,340 more than 10 000 years ago in any case even if columbus did not 77 00:05:11,340 --> 00:05:11,360 in any case even if columbus did not 78 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:18,060 discover the new world, no one disputes that he started two-way communication between the old 79 00:05:18,060 --> 00:05:23,360 world and the new. In that sense, his reputation is still safe.