Fox News commentator mocked for outrageously blaming slave trade on wind

Really, see Vikings and Egyptian slave trade.
True for coastal and small seas. Not so good for the Atlantic and Pacific.

FWIW, the Vikings made it to the Americas by following the northern route Iceland-Greenland-North America.
 
True for coastal and small seas. Not so good for the Atlantic and Pacific.

FWIW, the Vikings made it to the Americas by following the northern route Iceland-Greenland-North America.
I think of the human condition, if there’s a will, there’s a way. Sailing ships made it easier, but you guys make it sound impossible in ships that used oars and I know, it’s not.
 
I think of the human condition, if there’s a will, there’s a way. Sailing ships made it easier, but you guys make it sound impossible in ships that used oars and I know, it’s not.

Oars across the Atlantic wouldn’t be impossible, but certainly impractical due to the size of the boat, the number of calories burned and the amount of food they could carry.

Remember the Kon-Tiki? A balsa-wood raft? As the link below states, while Thor proved it could be done, it was an impractical way to colonize. Still, genetic indicates that, like the Vikings in North America, there was clearly contact between Polynesians and Native Americans who came over the Bering Strait over 11,000 years ago. Your comment about “if there’s a will, there’s a way” applies. It amazes me how much people could do when they weren’t busy watching TV or playing on the Internet. LOL



https://geneticliteracyproject.org/...-ancient-americans-really-settle-the-pacific/
Possible, yet improbable. Even at the time, the established scientific consensus—backed by an impressive mass of linguistic and archaeological evidence, and amply reinforced by subsequent genetic research—had long pointed to island Southeast Asia (modern day Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan) as the ancestral homeland of the first peoples of the Pacific.

New research backs the ‘Kon-Tiki hypothesis’

That is, until an explosive paper, published in the journal Nature in July 2020, claimed to have found “conclusive evidence for prehistoric contact” between Polynesians and Native Americans, one that likely followed “a single contact event … in eastern Polynesia” (emphasis added). Based on what they say are “limited molecular genetic studies”, the paper’s authors—population geneticist Alexander Ioannidis and colleagues—raised “the intriguing possibility that [later arriving] Polynesian settlers encountered a small, already established, Native American population”.
 
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