Arjun
Compared to our forefathers our lives are so blah....imagine setting off on a journey to discover a new land, navigating by the stars not knowing where you are or where you are going in a small wooden ship!
May 6, 2009
SAHunter
Arjun, read the book "1421 - The year the Chinese discovered the world" by Gavin Menzies. Unbelievable reading
May 6, 2009
Huntmexicofrom Americo Vespucio (esp), Amerigo di Vespucci (ita), an italian sailor that considered that the lands discovered by columbus were in fact a whole new continent, so the mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller in his 1507 map, named "America" to the "new... morefrom Americo Vespucio (esp), Amerigo di Vespucci (ita), an italian sailor that considered that the lands discovered by columbus were in fact a whole new continent, so the mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller in his 1507 map, named "America" to the "new world" in his honor...
