The Origins of Some Well Known North American?? Vegetables and Fruits

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The Origins of Some Well Known; North American?? Vegetables and Fruits: Beans, Corn, (Maize), Melons, Potatoes, Squash, Tomatoes

Beans, Corn (Maize), Melons, Potatoes, Squash, Tomatoes

There is considerable confusion and some controversy as to the true origins of these vegetables. The confusion is seen to arise from the fact that for some never to be known reason the United States loves to insist that known untruths are truths and that much of what is none factual is indeed factual.

For example the United States still has Columbus Day, when they celebrate his having "discovered" some mythical, country, nation, place or thing called America.

The rest of the world now recognizes that he simply got lost while attempting to follow some five hundred year old sailing charts of Norse origin.—that at the very most, and that too is very debatable, he" discovered" actually "rediscovered", only some small islands that were unknown to most European navigators or at least did not show up on most maps.

Possibly, as claimed by the United States, one was Cuba and one might have been Trinidad. Actually, as stated above; if, and where, Columbus made any landfall is still very much in dispute. We do know it would have been somewhere in the Bahamas, Bermuda, or the Caribbean.  

Columbus supposedly spent five days exploring the first island before sailing to another island which may, although it is highly unlikely have been Cuba. If the Island was Cuba, the existence of the American continents (the distance between the two being 90.3 miles) definitely would have been known. Why then, if he really was looking for China and India, would he not want to at least make land fall on the mainland? The existing records of his journey have no mention of a larger land mass.

We know from the second journal-strangely Columbus's original journal and ships log were lost.—that he picked up a small pole which appeared to have been worked with iron.             Draft animals and metals other than gold were unknown in North and South America, prior to the first European settlement; so where did this small pole come from?      In order to have made such a discovery, Columbus would have to have been much further north; in the area of Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, or Nova Scotia and have stumbled upon an old site of Norse origin. As defined by the United States of America, he would not then have been in any part of “America”.

Or perhaps the continent of Atlantis arose from the deep, just for those five days: but Atlantis also is not America.

We also know, from this journal, that where ever it was he landed "They go as naked as when their mothers bore them, and so do the women, although I did not see more than one girl. They are very well made, with handsome bodies and very good countenances".

Only four things have any ring of credibility:

§  He may have" discovered" some small islands which he took to be part of the East-Indies

§  He never, set foot on North or South America and had no idea that either continent existed.

§  He was not Spanish born.

§  If the United States wants to continue their claim that the Spanish discovered America, then Cortez, and not Columbus, was the first Spaniard known to have set foot on any of the Americas.

On 24 June 1497, John Cabot, sighted Cape Breton Island, and Nova Scotia, thus, supposedly, "discovering" the mainland of North America; this was only about 600 years after the Norsemen had already done so.

Yes, the first Europeans known definitely to set foot in the Americas were the Norse. Beginning in the eighth century, they burst out of their cultural homeland in Scandinavia in a series of expansionist waves of migration, likely triggered by over population, food shortage and by disease. It is very probable that the Russians had also.

The term Viking, though commonly used to denote ship-borne explorers, traders and warriors, is actually a verb, not a noun, and describes the acts of the Norsemen who originated in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, and raided the coasts of the British Isles, France and other parts of Europe and North America from at least the late 8^th century to the 11^th century. This period of world history (generally dated 793-1086) is referred to as the Viking Age. Famed for their navigation ability and long ships, the Norsemen in a few hundred years colonized the coasts and rivers of Europe, the islands of Shetland, Orkney, the Faeroe Islands, Iceland and for at least a short while also Newfound land.

About (1000 AD), nearly half a millennium before Columbus, the Norse, (possibly Leif Eriksson or Eric the Red), were the first of the "Old World Peoples" to set foot in North America.

It has also been proven that in the year 1481 the British, having been led by the Norsemen, had a fishing colony in Newfoundland. The colony was named after the British leader of the expedition. His last name sounded very much like America.

While a number of other theories regarding the origin of the name America have been advanced, none have been proven true (very strange, if it were true that the name first came into existence after 1492, but it is not)

First and the most generally accepted theory (the United States excluded) is that the name America is derived from an ancient Norse term, in very common use by the North Atlantic sailing fraternity from about that magical year 1000 AD.

Then too, the United States continues to refer to “third world” countries of the Middle East, Asia and Africa, ignoring the truth that we are the new comers and the true third world, that our alphabet, much of our modern science, mathematics, religion, the bible, democratic government, law, and the very basis of much of the Constitution of The United States originated in these same countries.

On top of this, if you are a Christian, the son of the very God in whom you believe and in whom the United States currency claims to trust was born in the Middle East.

Queen Isabella of Spain was desperate to find a short route to Cathay (China) and to develop other rich markets. This factor alone prompted the journeys of Columbus and facilitated the greatest hoax of all time.

The United States of America has always believed they own or should own all of the Caribbean (actually that they are destined to be world dictators) but then they have to, in order to lend any credibility whatsoever to the ridiculous claim that Columbus discovered America; which to their way of thinking is the United States – only the United States.

Much of the so called "Cuba Crisis" came about because Fidel Castro informed them that his country is Cuba- not America, not American, and not located in any of the three Americas. Of course, then, in order to retain Cuban sovereignty and avoid an American invasion, he had little choice but to align himself closely with Russia.

Looking at the situation from U. S. perspective

A.    If Cuba and Trinidad are not part of America.

B.     If the Caribbean is not part of America.

C.     If Columbus never saw or set foot on North or South America;

D.    If Canada, Mexico and South America ,with a total population of approximately 590,000,000 people and total area of 30,000,000 square kilometers are not part of what the United States considers to be America

E.     If the United States of America with a population of 300,000,000 people and an area of only 9,631,418 square kilometers, less than a third of the Americas, comprises all of America.

F.     And a continent or even a country named America cannot be found in any world atlas. Not of this world at least.

G.    Then America does not exist. So Columbus could not possibly have discovered it and the people of that area now called the United States of America have no right to call themselves by American. Therefore, the citizens, or peoples, of the United States of America, remain what they always have been; a loose union, or collaboration, of peoples of mixed races and cultures, a conglomerate of different geological areas and territories, without a nationality, because they are union of states and have never become true a country or nation any more than the European Union, Soviet Union, or United Kingdom is, or was, a single country or nation. They are simply the United States “of” North America.

If Columbus discovered an America, it must have, like the mythical island, continent or nation of Atlantis, mysteriously slipped beneath the waves of the Atlantic.

America and Americans (if used other than as a description of all peoples living in North or South America) just does not make sense, and like the legend of Atlantis is-strictly an unsubstantiated myth, folk-lore, or the product of overactive imagination.

Instead of the United States claiming they do not recognize parts of Canada as being Canadian territory and do not recognize some other governments and religions as being legitimate; it should be Canada and the rest of the world that do not recognize any peoples or territories claiming to be America, or American.

Back in the days or Abraham Lincoln, many politicians in the United States bragged that their country "will become the “terror” of the modern world" (documented in the movie Young Lincoln). Today, people of our world must realize that much of this bragging has materialized and the United States of America are terrorists.

An absolute disregard on the part of the United States for: truth, liberty, freedom, territorial boarders, historical facts, or human rights, coupled with an absolute paranoia towards anything or anyone different, or that does not fully capitulate and accept their ideas and way of thinking, have caused a great amount of confusion, suffering and dying in our world.

Too many, this seems to be of little consequence for we are supposedly American allies. But, it also means that many things long thought to have originated, or been invented in the United States did not or were not.        For example:

All, of the above listed vegetables, long claimed to have originated in America, (see also—Where did the automobile come from? page 196) originated either in the deep southernmost part of Mexico, or on an entirely different continent, South America, with the Aztec or Incas, people having a much different, origin, culture, and life style than the much stereotyped North American native.

While it is accepted by anthropologists and scientists that North America was settled from the north by peoples emigrating across the Bering Straits it is also very, very evident that South America had by far the older and more advanced civilizations. It is just as evident that these peoples were not all of the same race or origin, and all very different from the North Americans. There is also a question in North America as to the origins of blue eyed Cherokee and other natives that existed before the first recorded arrival of any known Caucasians

The fore mentioned vegetables could not possibly have been developed by a nomadic, hunter gather, culture; but required the techniques of a much more advanced peoples, with a more sedentary life style, written language, superior architecture, some idea of irrigation, more attuned to agriculture, and several hundreds, if not thousands of years.

 Think about this: if these vegetables were developed in North America over the time it would require, that would make the North American culture older than most of the countries of Europe and Asia. Why then, if they had all this know how did they not; these war-like peoples; also have the skills to make any of the basic developments in herding, animal husbandry, armament, architecture, metallurgy, irrigation, plumbing, sewage and drainage systems, transportation, or any other forms of agriculture so common in the rest of the world for hundreds if not thousands of years?

Could it be that the indigenous North American tribes are, as science claims, really relatively new comers to North America; and in fact the descendants of some of the weaker, less advanced, Mongolian tribes, that were driven out of Asia during its stone age, and had never developed much further? Could it be that it required the superior civilizations of South American, the original American civilizations, the only peoples to have a true written language, and the only people capable of keeping the necessary records, in order to achieve such developments?

Some things can be passed on successfully basically by word of mouth and by material evidence; others just cannot, especially in a culture in which the average life span is less than forty years and there was very little communication between the various tribes or nations.

Could it also be that the North American native, living in probably the most primitive civilization on earth, survived only because, for a time, they were so isolated?

We, in Canada, need to change either our concept of history or the concepts of the native peoples.

There still exists a serious question as to whether the bean, corn, squash, potato, and tobacco, were not cultivated in China ages before being introduced to the Americas. A recent traveler says, “The interior of China along the course of the Yang-tse-Kiang is a land full of wonders. In one place pisicultural nurseries line the banks for nearly fifty miles. All sorts of inventions, the cotton-gin included, claimed by Europeans and Americans are to be found there forty centuries old. Plants, yielding drugs of great value without number, the familiar tobacco and potato, maize (white and yellow corn) and other plants believed to be indigenous to the Americas, have been cultivated there from time immemorial. To add more credence to this argument; a great number of tomato sauces (including, but not limited to, ketchup, the most popular tomato sauce of them all) were known in China long before they came to the rest of the world

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