America Eden

The history of North America is much different than the history books and the official story. There have been many visitors before Columbus and there is some doubt as to the naming of North America. This article will demonstrate some of the "prehistory" discovery of the continent. It will also include the first European explorers and some of the very first colonies.

Prehistoric Asian forebears of natives migrating across Bering Strait
Egypt black African discovery around 3000 years ago
the Phoenicians reportedly before the Norse
800-500 BC pu&ic and Celtic explores
either 332 or 400 BC Pytheas discovers albion, continues six days North to a place he called thule either Norway, Scandinavia, the Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, Iceland, or Greenland, Ireland was called Ieme. The work of several ancient writers seemed to rule out the Islands and the Viking territories leaving Iceland or Greenland
north and west of Ireland and Britain, over such beyond the faroes, most of scythia, Arctic Circle, close to ice covered sea, no night in summer, no day in winter, large island with 25 tribes.
ultima thule any distant place located beyond the borders of the known world, the northernmost habitation of people
the Arctic was an inaccessible place. the birthplace of the North Wind (Boreas).
in Greek myth Hyperborea was a land farther north beyond the north winds. It was a vast region, perfect, rich in gold, of rich soils, soft azure skies, gentle breezes, fecund animals, and trees that bore fruit even in winter, a blessed atmosphere, suggests Association with the Garden of Eden. There is a theory that the Garden of Eden was in fact North America. The inhabitants were thought to be the oldest of the human races, compassionate in temperament, knowing no want, of a contemplative bent.
If Thule was a culture of Iceland and sub arctic territories (Inuit), the Boreas the uninhabited Arctic, then Hyperborea is likely North America. Going north of the North from Europe you end up going south on the other side of the world. Which suggests that Greeks knew of North America. Making South America the vast lost continent on the other side of the world, Atlantis. They could have discovered Hyperborea in the battles with and defeat of Atlantis. They could have gotten the location of Atlantis from the Egyptians who were made a tribute colony and trade partner.

The fortunate isles, blessed isles are a land in celtic legends beyond the sunset, associated with Avalon where King Arthur went to the west
the Irish visited a place called Iargalon, the land beyond the Sunset
late 900's Irish monk Brendan
1197 Welsh prince Madog
late 800s Norwegian Viking sail to Iceland
861 Naddod discovers man he calls Snowland
862 Gardar went to find it and spent one year there, people began to call it Gardar Island
roughly 867 Floki visits and calls Gardars Isle Iceland
870 Ingolf and Leif flee from Norway, settle in Iceland
roughly 932 Gunnbjörn Ulfsson discovers Greenland by accident
roughly 970 Thorvald and his son Eric the red sails to Iceland
978 Snøbjørn Galte Holmsteinsson travels to Greenland
? 979 Thorvald travels westward to explore Greenland, his men and him settled for two years
981 returns to Iceland
982 Eric the red banish from Iceland, goes to Greenland
985 Bjarni Herjolfsson blown off course, sees unknown land
1001 Eric the red's son Leif Eriksson sails to discover this land Scandinavian Amt for district and Eric gives you Amterik land of Eric
around the beginning of the 11th century sailors called the place Oh-meh-ric-eh an old norse word meaning farthest outland
Ommerike said to derive from the Gothic Amalric which means kingdom of heaven
1002 Norsemen in North America, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Vinland
also discovered Newfoundland (Markland, Forestland or borderland), Baffin Island (helluland, land of flat stones), Labrador South Coast (furdustrandir): Cape Breton (Kjarnes), bjarney, hop
thorfinn ka|lsefni leads settlers to new lands, after fights with natives the Vikings gave up their settlement
1347 last documented voyage to Greenland, colony collapsed shortly after
European fishermen visited the grand Banks regularly by middle 14th century 1350
1372 last bishop of Greenland died three
1389 Henricus (Eric) consecrated as Bishop of Greenland

1398 - Henry Sinclair reaches Nova Scotia, May have mixed the Mi'kmaq (micmac) Indians - Malecite Beothuk
their tribal leaders confirm oral histories of three ways of early contact with Europeans
Henry Sinclair, Templar colony in Newport Rhode Island, end of the 14th century, Scottish
1492 - Christopher Columbus supposedly discovers North America
1497 - first voyage, 1499/1500 Amerigho Vespucci
America from district in Venezuela called Amerique famous for gold, country of perpetually strong wind, or land of wind (creator Spirit)
1497 - Giovanni Caboto claims Cape Breton Island for England, named it after Richard Ameryk
1500 - Gaspar Corte Real Benefits of Portugal explores East Coast and takes native slaves
1513 - Ponce De Leon in Florida, tries to settle Florida
1521 - Cortes conquers Mexico
1521 - Joao Alvarez Fagundes of Portugal attempts a settlement
1524 - Italian Giovanni da Verrazamo sent by French King Francis the first to find shorter route to China
1526 - Lucas Vazquez de Is Ayllon tries to settle in North Carolina
1530 - Jacques Cartier explores the Gulf of St. Lawrence, trades with Indians
1536 - Cabeza de Vaca reaches Mexico City after exploring North American southwest
1539 - Hernando de Soto explores the interior from Florida to Arkansas
1540 - Coronado travels from Mexico to eastern Kansas
1541 - Failed French settlement at Quebec City (Cartier and Roberval)
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo on the California coast.
1559 - Failed Spanish settlement at Pensacola, Florida
1562 - Failed Huguenot settlement in South Carolina (Charlesfort-Santa Elena site)
1564 - French Huguenots at Jacksonville, Florida (Fort Caroline)
1565 - Spanish found Saint Augustine, Florida
1566-87 - Spanish in South Carolina (Charlesfort-Santa Elena site)
1570 - Failed Spanish settlement on Chesapeake Bay (Ajacan Mission)
1576: Martin Frobisher on the coast of Labrador and Baffin Island
1585 - Failed English settlement in North Carolina (Lost Colony), the Roanoke colony
1598 - Failed French settlement on Sable Island off Nova Scotia
1600 - Pierre De Chauvin, with DuPont, and Champlain
1602 - San Miguel - Spanish
1603 - Francois Grave DuPont, which Champlain
1604 - Pierre Dugua de Mon, with DuPont, Champlain
1605 - French habitation at Port Royal, destroyed 1613
1607 - Samuel Champlain
1607 - Jamestown - English captain Christopher Newport, first English colony
1607 - Popham Colony - English
1608 - Quebec - French
1610 - Cuper's Cove - English
1610 - Kecoughtan, Virginia - English
1610 - Santa Fe - Spanish
1611 - Henricus - English
1615 - Fort Nassau - Dutch
1615 - Renews, Newfoundland - English
1618 - Bristol's Hope - English
1620 - St. John's, Newfoundland - English
1620 - Plymouth Colony - English
1622 - William Alexander, colony of Charlesfort failed, reestablish as Port Royal by his son 1629, later becomes Annapolis Royal