Hoi Shin

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   Although Neolithic people from Asia had already visited America in the ice age in search of food, shelter, etc. But we cannot classify these wanderers, explorers because explorers go to a particular place and return. Around a thousand years before Columbus landed in the Bahamas, a Chinese explorer, Hoi Shin came back from a voyage to a land 32,000 km to the east. The land would precisely be the western coast of present day Mexico. Those who have intensively studied his biography agree on the fact that Columbus wasn't the first one to reach America. The place which Shin discovered was named Fusang by him. The name comes from a plant used extensively by the early Mesoamericans call Maguey. So you see, Columbus may have the wrong credit!

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   Although Neolithic people from Asia had already visited America in the ice age in search of food, shelter, etc. But we cannot classify these wanderers, explorers because explorers go to a particular place and return. Around a thousand years before Columbus landed in the Bahamas, a Chinese explorer, Hoi Shin came back from a voyage to a land 32,000 km to the east. The land would precisely be the western coast of present day Mexico. Those who have intensively studied his biography agree on the fact that Columbus wasn't the first one to reach America. The place which Shin discovered was named Fusang by him. The name comes from a plant used extensively by the early Mesoamericans call Maguey. So you see, Columbus may have the wrong credit!

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