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They Came Before Columbus

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This presentation will cover the evidence supporting African exploration before European exploitation and colonization. My presentation will go over the following pieces of evidence:

  • Gua-nin
  • Almayzars
  • Spanish journals

  • It seems to be common knowledge that Christopher Columbus was the one who "discovered" America
  • This is astoundingly false
  • You can't discover a place people are already inhabiting
  • Columbus was an idiot
  • He thought he was in India when he landed in Trinidad
  • Because he was a terrible explorer
  • The only thing Columbus discovered was that he was an asshole

Spanish Journals

Gua-nin

To Conclude

  • Everything you, and most people probably know about the exploration of America is false
  • Africans explored before Europeans
  • Christopher Columbus is garbage
  • There are firsthand accounts documenting African and Native American interaction.
  • This is literally the most blatant evidence there is
  • Raccolta, a spanish explorer wrote that Native Americans received gua-nin from Africans, who he addresses as "Negro People" here
  • “...and he wanted to find out what the Indians of Hispaniola had told him, that there had come to it from the south and southeast Negro people, who brought those spear points made of a metal which they called gua-nin…”
  • He is literally saying that Africans gave the gua-nin to Native Americans
  • More specifically, before Europeans
  • Despite being on different continents, both Native Americans and Africans both used a material called gua-nin to make spears
  • It's not just some coincidence that they have the same name and purpose, they had the same composition too
  • 32 parts, 18 gold, 6 silver, 8 copper
  • Meaning its very likely that Africans had the gua-nin spears, and traded or gave the spears to Natives on arriving in America

Almayzars

  • The handkerchiefs that Native people used in Trinidad, and Africans in Sierra Leonne were alike in both style and function
  • The handkerchiefs were Guinean almayzars
  • Or headdresses and loincloths

I'm

Garbage!

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