Topic: A continent called America
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Sat 07/23/16 02:09 PM
How many regions or zones a continent called America has?

I said "continent"; not a country....

Christophe Columbus discovered America (the continent)....after the Vikings did it !

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Sat 07/23/16 04:28 PM
There were people in the Americas long before the Vikings,or the Trader. There is proven evidence of human occupation in many parts of the Americas' that is over 30,000 years old. There is some very strong evidence that shows that a number of different cultures were here as long as 100,000 years ago. There is a new site on the east coast of the U.S. that has produced material that dates back to that early era. Many sites are not made public because of the problem of others disturbing and looting materials.
Go to any good natural history museum,and you can learn about these things.

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Sat 07/23/16 05:25 PM

How many regions or zones a continent called America has?

I said "continent"; not a country....

Christophe Columbus discovered America (the continent)....after the Vikings did it !


Yes and we met those fool suckas. Wish they had stayed home.

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Sat 07/23/16 09:17 PM
There are Three regions that are internationally recognized, North, Central, and South.

Don't forget that the Americas were discovered by the Polynesians a few hundred years before the Vikings and Chinese and Japanese somewhere between those two. The first to truly discover the Americas how ever were the nomadic tribes that later became known as Indians (because European explorers thought they found a back way to India), Aztecs, Mayans and so on. This is of course omitted from most history books because the white European descendant like to believe that if Europeans didn't discover it no one did.

jazzinc's photo
Sun 07/24/16 01:39 AM

There are Three regions that are internationally recognized, North, Central, and South.

Don't forget that the Americas were discovered by the Polynesians a few hundred years before the Vikings and Chinese and Japanese somewhere between those two. The first to truly discover the Americas how ever were the nomadic tribes that later became known as Indians (because European explorers thought they found a back way to India), Aztecs, Mayans and so on. This is of course omitted from most history books because the white European descendant like to believe that if Europeans didn't discover it no one did.


But officially; the world recognize another region; The West Indies.( Cuba, Dominican Rep, Haiti, Jamaica, etc ...and several more).

Who discovered America? Surely, the first humans to walk in this land; never knew about a new or different land; for them; it was an extension of the same region where they lived. Only for Columbus it was America (Americo Vespucio). But the point is: The whole continent has an official name: America. And it has 4 regions.

Thanks for your comment.

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Sun 07/24/16 02:00 AM
Uh, there is one continent named North America, and there is another continent named South America.
Two continents, not one.

Only for Columbus it was America (Americo Vespucio)


No, it wasn't. Columbus thought that he had reached the East Indies.
He didn't know that he had discovered a place unknown to Europeans.

Also, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller coined the name America one year after Columbus died.

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Sun 07/24/16 09:10 PM

Uh, there is one continent named North America, and there is another continent named South America.
Two continents, not one.

Only for Columbus it was America (Americo Vespucio)


No, it wasn't. Columbus thought that he had reached the East Indies.
He didn't know that he had discovered a place unknown to Europeans.

Also, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller coined the name America one year after Columbus died.

Thanks for the assist, just out of curiosity do they teach Earth history on Melmac or is this stuff you've pick up since you landed?

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Sun 07/24/16 10:10 PM


Uh, there is one continent named North America, and there is another continent named South America.
Two continents, not one.

Only for Columbus it was America (Americo Vespucio)


No, it wasn't. Columbus thought that he had reached the East Indies.
He didn't know that he had discovered a place unknown to Europeans.

Also, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller coined the name America one year after Columbus died.

Thanks for the assist, just out of curiosity do they teach Earth history on Melmac or is this stuff you've pick up since you landed?


It is stuff that I've picked up since I landed. :smile: