I gotta go with the others on here. Transatlantic travel would have been all but impossible unless you were going to sale from South Africa, around Antarctica, to Southern Chile, and you would be crossing literally the two most dangerous water routes on Earth.
Sailing straight across would have been suicide.
Even the Vikings had to go around Iceland and Greenland in order to get to Newfoundland. And these were absolute professional sailors, with expert seamanship, with excellent shipbuilding, a huge wealth of resources and knowledge (collected from their many conquests and mercenary actions), and colonies along the way.
The reason the New World was discovered is because the Age of Sail (resulting from the sequestration of the Silk Road due to the Ottomans) created the greatest sailing civilizations in all of human history.
Now there is discussion about possible Pacific Islander trade with South America, and that would be cool, but it still would be an enormous task.
There is a tribe in Nigeria that has a bunch of cultural isms from the Americas, including a legend about boats. They even point with their lips. Early conquistadors had reports that tribes in the Americas knew about Africans and even did trade with them.
The Polynesians probably traded with the Americas in three separate migrations. Hau'ofa, a famous Polynesian philosopher, pointed out they traveled the oceans with supplies and people for colonies and trade, but people studying them thought it was blind luck. This is a people that can stick their hand in the water and know where they are. By all records and signs, the Pacific Islanders probably stopped their migration in the 1500's while Spain began exploring the New World.
It looks like the expansive trade groups began to wither, and it was part of the reason why Europeans began exploring. The entire world was contracting and it meant the spices, gems, and other riches couldn't arrive in European hands. They didn't know this, but the explorers were trying to counter a thing that archaeologists and historians have barely acknowledged the last few years.
Then CRT decided to turn it all into we was kangz and it made the research even harder. Far worse, most departments studying these migrations are closing down.
I gotta go with the others on here. Transatlantic travel would have been all but impossible unless you were going to sale from South Africa, around Antarctica, to Southern Chile, and you would be crossing literally the two most dangerous water routes on Earth.
Sailing straight across would have been suicide.
Even the Vikings had to go around Iceland and Greenland in order to get to Newfoundland. And these were absolute professional sailors, with expert seamanship, with excellent shipbuilding, a huge wealth of resources and knowledge (collected from their many conquests and mercenary actions), and colonies along the way.
The reason the New World was discovered is because the Age of Sail (resulting from the sequestration of the Silk Road due to the Ottomans) created the greatest sailing civilizations in all of human history.
Now there is discussion about possible Pacific Islander trade with South America, and that would be cool, but it still would be an enormous task.
There is a tribe in Nigeria that has a bunch of cultural isms from the Americas, including a legend about boats. They even point with their lips. Early conquistadors had reports that tribes in the Americas knew about Africans and even did trade with them.
The Polynesians probably traded with the Americas in three separate migrations. Hau'ofa, a famous Polynesian philosopher, pointed out they traveled the oceans with supplies and people for colonies and trade, but people studying them thought it was blind luck. This is a people that can stick their hand in the water and know where they are. By all records and signs, the Pacific Islanders probably stopped their migration in the 1500's while Spain began exploring the New World.
It looks like the expansive trade groups began to wither, and it was part of the reason why Europeans began exploring. The entire world was contracting and it meant the spices, gems, and other riches couldn't arrive in European hands. They didn't know this, but the explorers were trying to counter a thing that archaeologists and historians have barely acknowledged the last few years.
Then CRT decided to turn it all into we was kangz and it made the research even harder. Far worse, most departments studying these migrations are closing down.