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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 8th
century to the 11th 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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