Who discovered America! Vikings, or Columbus, or this unknown person?
Despite the attribution of the discovery of the New World land to the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, many believe that the rates of discovery of North America have a historical error, as there were those who preceded him in discovering it, and some believe that Muslims were the first to discover it.
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The discovery of the New World dates back to 1492, after the famous Italian sailor and explorer Christopher Columbus sailed from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, to cross the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, which is attributed to him for discovering the land of the North American continent and the New World.
Many studies indicate that Muslims preceded Columbus in reaching Latin America. After several years of research and study in Latin America, researchers Abdul Hadi Barzurto and Daniel Denton revealed in a lecture they gave at the University of California about similarities in the ways of living that were practiced by the indigenous Indians. The Reds, the Aztecs are known with the Muslims.
And it was stated in the book “Sadfly Changed History” by Ibrahim Ali, that some historians believe that the Muslim Arabs arrived in America about 500 years before Christopher, based on the historian Al-Idrisi in his book “The Meadows of Gold and Minerals of the Essence” written in 956 AD, where he told about one of the adventurers called "Poppy" sailed on a journey with his companions on a sea route called the Sea of Darkness in the year 889 CE, where he found spoils and expensive minerals, and it was the Americas.
Al-Masoudi talks in his book about a Muslim sailor who is believed to be the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the first to discover America. His name is Khashkhash bin Said bin Aswad. He grew up in Bajana Al-Andalus, currently Pechina, a municipality located in the province of Almeria. Southeast of Spain, Poppy sailed for America in 889, returning from it with valuable loads.
He began his journey to America from the port of Palos de la Frontera, a municipality located in the province of Huelva in the Andalusia region of southern Spain. The history of Palos is closely linked to naval work and geographical exploration, and it is the same port from which Christopher Columbus will set out for America.