Does anyone agree with me that the Chinese first discovered N. America long before Columbus and settled there.

Question

The eskimos are definitely chinese and the red indians do look chinese. Maybe DNA will give us the answer.

Answer 1

Yes, I think it's very believable. The Anthropologists have held for years that North America was populated from BOTH the North AND the South and the thinking has been that an Asian seafaring race made it all the way to the tip of South American and began to populate North America from the South LONG before the land bridge migration started populating from the North.

The earliest archaeological remains have been located in Argentina and dated to 40,000 years ago. This finding has been fought for the past 20 years or so because the Christians believe the world was created 6000 years ago... on a Thursday... so the politics of the FACTS had had to be suppressed because of the religious right.

Answer 2

I don't know exactly who discovered it first, but to my knowledge it wasn't the Chinese or Columbus, it was Leif Ericson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericsson
And by that I mean 'discovered by the eastern world'.
As far as who look like what, meaning Eskimos looking Asian, it is a matter of evolution and migration.
Sixty million years ago our species, the homo-sapians, started to migrate out of Africa, yes we are all of African descent my brother, and started to populate the rest of the world. This is when we started to evolve separately giving us a different look throughout the world.
Asians were obviously one of the biggest explorers since we find them everywhere, but when they migrated to the arctic regions to become Eskimo's could have happened thousands of years ago.
So by my way of thinking since the Indians have their own evolutionary look, closest to Mexican, is that they collectively populated the Americas first and separated into two distinct cultures first , followed by Eskimos, the Norse Leif Ericson, and then Columbus, and anyone else I don't know about.
As for the question of who got there first, that is a matter of perspective. I believe that Indians own that right. But in recent history it would be either Asians or Ericson. I think that the reason Columbus gets all the credit is that he started what would eventually change the face of North America forever.

Answer 3

Archaeologists tell us that Asians crossed the 'land bridge' into North America about 10-15,000 years ago. (in those days the oeans were lower and the Aleutian Islands formed a land connection to what is now Eastern Russia)

There is now speculation that Asians may have sailed accross the Pacific before that time hopping from one island to the next but there is no solid evidence to back that up just yet. (I don't know if you would call them 'Chinese' per se back then but thats not really important)

Answer 4

It has been a belief that there was a land bridge that connected NA with Iceland and that the Mongolians came across that way. To take it further they may have walked to South America. Hard to say.

Answer 5

The world was here first. --Mark Twain