Since i don't see an archeology category allow me to ask here.
I saw some articles in the about this issue. Some people say that the ancient Greeks reached the shores of America during or before the Mycenaean times. They say that there are architectural and linguistic similarities with the ancient American cultures like the Mayans and that many known ancient Greek texts are mentioning land and cultures west of the Atlantic. I saw that there is even a book by an American archaeologist (Henriette Mertz ) which supports this theory. Has anyone an opinion about this issue?
2007-09-02 09:01:54 · 8 answers · asked by curious_greek 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
As far as I know, the first Europeans to reach North America were the Vikings. I have, however, read about a theory claiming that Celtic peoples had actually made it here before the Norse.
2007-09-03 05:19:41 · answer #1 · answered by packerfan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, only idiots think this. Mertz is one of them. By the way, the Mycenaean period ended some 300 years before the Greek geometric period, and some 500-600 years before what most people think of as being "ancient Greek".
As for the Vikings being first to reach the Americas... you have to qualify that. They were probably the first Europeans to reach America. Some new theories suggest a possible land connection via Greenland during the last Ice Age, but this isn't widely supported. The first people to reach the Americas came across the Bering Strait from Asia. There were possibly subsequent migrations to South America from the Polynesian Islands. The Chinese also sailed to the western coast of Central and North America before Columbus or the Vikings, a fact supported by both Chinese historical records and archaeological finds off the western coast of Mexico.
2007-09-02 10:43:21 · answer #2 · answered by blakenyp 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love their accents :D especially little kids!!! its one of the reasons beside the good universities that I want to move there, I want my children to have that accent :) Also, I love their vocabulary and the people I have met from Britain so far have been really nice :) I'm only jealous that they get to drink 3 years before us, and they have some of the most fittest famous chaps (1D, the Harries twins, Marcus Butler and more).
2016-03-13 01:27:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they did make it, they obviously didn't make it back to brag about it and use it to go down in history as the worlds best explorer.
Their ships lacked the technology for safe oceanic travel, they could have made it if the weather favored them, but I doubt it.
2007-09-02 10:08:37 · answer #4 · answered by Ashamed2beHuman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Greek Triremes lacked the techonology to make such a voyage.
2007-09-02 09:57:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
100% false!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
the first ppl 2 reach the americas were the vikings.
every1 knows that. and just some article that said that greeks reach the americas first doesn't mean its true. 2 it 2 b true they would have 2 have some type of historalcal fact behind it.
2007-09-02 09:11:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they may not have but they are things
that prove that the hebrews or jewish was here
in the BC times. there is place where the
ten comandemnets are written in a form of
hebrew that is been dead for years
2007-09-02 14:40:53 · answer #7 · answered by harlin42 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no! the first were the vikings!
2007-09-02 09:14:53 · answer #8 · answered by k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋