it has alot to do with everything... heres some application for you..

Christopher Columbus didnt ever step foot on North America, it was infact SOUTH America where he landed, the first possible known person to step foot on America, was Leif Ericson, and it was around 1000 AD, others say it was possibly Richard Muerig, and others say John Cabot, both in the very late 1400s... carbon dating of crap (litterally) shows that Native Americans were here 14+ thousand years ago, but, they had Asian lineage in their blood lines...

so if you want to get technical, Asians were here first... immigration and evolution is part of the world, and part of history, you cant change it, what is true? how would we know, all we have to rely on is what people have written in books, so who is right? where do you start? because books are proven wrong all the time, and Albert Einstiens theory of "nothing is faster than the speed of light" is actually in the process of being disproved, as they have found molecules from atoms i believe that travel far faster than the speed of light...

the last part of that is rather irrelevant.. but it goes to show, that you can believe what you wish, there are many theorys, by many different people, whos right?

answer, noone really knows, because you werent here 500, 1000, 10000, 15000 years ago...

i was just trying to have a discussion, if people wont allow that, feel free to delete this now... i wont be hurt in any way....

Hey Todd, watch the Bass Ackwards comments!

One important cause of Native American depopulation during European contact was epidemic disease. The sixteenth through nineteenth centuries saw many different diseases strike Native American populations with considerable frequency.






Many of the diseases, such as syphilis, smallpox, measles, mumps, and bubonic plague, were of European origin, and Native Americans exhibited little immunity because they had no previous exposure to those diseases. This caused greater mortality than would have occurred if these diseases been endemic to the Americas.

I had heard that syphilis was a New World gift to the Old.

Scary, you left out Scarlet Fever, Diptheria, Typhoid and Cholera. And probably the common cold.
And how do you say Satan in the 500 tribes dialects. Hernando de Soto
or Coronado will do.

Pretty sure Egyptians gave bald eagles smallpox when they stayed at the Hotel California.

I don't really blame people for the transfer of germs.............you can't really help that a place you're visiting hasn't been exposed to your cooties before.

If it's done intentionally, it becomes a different story.

Why did it take me so long to read this thread?

Comedy [Bleeeeep!] gold.