A voyage by ancient Hebrews even before the time of Christ is the foundation for an entire religion ... Israel 600 B.C. Two thousand and ninety two years before Columbus ... So strong is the Central Band’s [Cherokee] belief that they have Jewish ancestry and origins in ancient Israel they set out to prove it by blood ... New Mexico state archaeologist David Eck has led more than his share of people into the Los Lunas desert etched with the ten commandments in what appears to be Paleo-Hebrew ... The stone has been subject to vandalism. ibid.
The tests are in and they are problematic proving Jewish ancestry. ibid.
In a bold new theory a Smithsonian archaeologist suggests that the people who came from Asia learned to make their tools from Europeans who were already here more than 20,000 years ago. ibid.
22,000 B.C. 23,482 years before Columbus. It’s the Ice Age ... Off the coast of Virginia someone was hunting a mastadon and left a clue that could mean Europeans really were the very first to find America. ibid.
Ecuador 3044 B.C. 4536 years before Columbus ... They are starting to make pottery ... Where did they learn these sophisticated techniques? ibid.
Twenty-six similarities in technique and motif on pottery from Japan and Valdivia. ibid.
Now DNA becomes invaluable. ibid.
Cocaine and nicotine – New World substances – found in Egyptian mummies from 1000 A.D [later indigenous plants found in Egypt]. ibid.
In memory of Prince Madog, a Welsh explorer, who landed on the shores of Mobile Bay in 1170 and left behind, with the Indians, the Welsh language. Tablet at Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay
Recent archaeological discoveries in the People’s Republic of China are changing America’s concept of its own history. From ancient historical records we hear of a Buddhist monk Hu-Shen who by his own written account appears to have landed on the American continent in 458 A.D. Did the trail they took lead them to central America? Now, new discoveries off the coast of California may furnish proof that America was discovered by Chinese explorers over a thousand years before Columbus. In Search of s5e20 … Chinese Explorers, 1981
Over a thousand years ago an ancient people built a thriving metropolis that dominated an entire continent. It was bigger than either medieval London or Paris. But this mighty city was not in Europe, it was in North America and it was built five hundred years before Columbus arrived. At the heart of their city they built a pyramid to rival those of ancient Egypt. Yet this vast settlement remains one of the most astonishing mysteries of western archaeology. An ancient city that vanished as suddenly as it had arrived. So what happened? America’s Hidden Pyramid City: Ancient Mysteries s/a Ancient Mysteries: America’s Hidden Pyramid City, Channel 5 2017
French explorers named it Cahokia after the native America tribe they found living there. ibid.
The ancient Cahokians commanded a trade network that extended right across the modern United States. ibid.
‘Cahokia is a city far larger than we ever imagined.’ ibid.
Home to over 20,000 people. ibid.
The shift to a warm wet climate meant Cahokia could grow corn all year round. ibid.
Monk’s Mound is up there with the greatest pyramids on Earth. ibid.
A flood of Biblical proportions … the Mississippi River burst its banks. ibid.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. Oscar Wilde
In New Hampshire USA a mysterious stone structure found deep in the woods has experts baffled, debating what it is and where it came from. Could this strange ruin be a place of pagan worship and human sacrifice thousands of years old? Does this mean ancient Europeans crossed the Atlantic thousands of years before Columbus? What is this place? Who built it? And what could its existence mean for America? In Salem, New Hampshire, a mysterious grouping of megalithic stones, one standing four point two metres, surround a compound that houses a maze of long chambers and crypts set into the ground. The centrepiece a huge stone slab. Weird or What? s1e5: Human Popsicle, Discovery 2010
The Celts were a diverse group of tribes that dominated much of central Europe until sixteen hundred years ago. Stone remnants of Celtic structures including elaborate burial chambers can be found all over Europe ... Did the Celts come and settle in America one thousand years before Columbus? ibid.
Who were the first people to land in what is now the US? ... Mysterious carved stones found off the coast of California led to speculation about American history. Could these stones be proof that the Chinese beat Columbus to the New World? Weird or What? s1e6: Personality Transplant/Chinese Columbus
It’s said to be a copy of a fifteenth-century Chinese sailing map which contains detailed descriptions of Native Americans. ibid.
We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are on us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world. John Winthrop, sermon 1630
The Masons played a very prominent role in the founding of America. Jim Marrs, interview Illuminating Angels & Demons
Battle of Port Gibson, 1863: About a tenth of the Union army was composed of German-born soldiers … ‘Immigration is America.’ How the World Made America I, History 2017
America is a tapestry: every dot on the map is someone living there right now. Using the latest population data it shows how the world made America. ibid.
DNA evidence shows that Native Americans are descended from Siberian nomads who entered North America at least 15,000 years ago. ibid.
The cities of Philadelphia and Boston are founded by the English. ibid.
Some two million Spanish settle to the South. ibid.
German Americans sign up in droves … Today almost 50 million Americans claim German heritage. ibid.
The need for workers will fuel immigration. ibid.
‘America in the 19th century was still very much a land of opportunity.’ How the World Made America II
What made a third of Norwegians move to the Great Lakes, the Pacific north-west? How did a volcano create an explosion of Italians in New York City? Why does World War II lead to a vast migration of women? And how does new railways impact the great African-American migration north? ibid.
Members of the Mennonite church travelled to America from Russia looking for land … In 1873 some 12,000 members of the Protestant Mennonite sect moved from the Ukraine to Kansas. ibid.
New York City: Also home to more than one million Jews, more than any other city on Earth … Two million Jews leave eastern Europe for the United States. ibid.
On America’s west coast another wave of migration is under way. ibid.
There are now just over four million Chinese-Americans, 40% of whom lived in California. ibid.
The Atlantic Ocean prevents the plague reaching the Americas. Mankind: The Story of All of Us V, History Channel 2012
The isolation of the Americas is coming to an end. ibid.
Risking all for a new world … Guided by Thor, God of Thunder, the Vikings set out across the world. Mankind: The Story of All of Us VII: New World
Ninety million Native Americans – a fifth of the planet’s population – cut off from the rest of the world. Until now. ibid.
In the Americas there are no iron tools or horses. No wheeled vehicles. Yet America’s people engineer great monuments. ibid.
Spanish sailors discover land. Leading them an Italian – Christopher Columbus. ibid.
Pilgrims – they arrive in the New World in search of religious freedoms. Mankind: The Story of All of Us VIII: Treasure
In New England fifty pioneers prepare to fight for their lives. ibid.
A crop they have never seen before – corn. ibid.
10% of all Americans today are descended from these first fifty pioneers. ibid.
A new commodity – human beings. ibid.
Almost a fifth of the population of the Americas can trace their roots back to Africa. ibid.