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Re:Did Ancient Greeks Sail to Canada? by aaron-lebo on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:01AM (#16288927)
Accidental contact probably happened a lot. Those are the stories that would be fascinating, but we'll never know about them. Planned colonization and/or trading missions are the more dubious claims.
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Re:Did Ancient Greeks Sail to Canada? by breakyerself on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:56AM (#16289308)
Unfortunately not enough to condition natives to the diseases brought from the old world.
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Re:Did Ancient Greeks Sail to Canada? by singularity2001 on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:03AM (#16289335)
this should be the accepted common sense answer

> but we'll never know about them

unless Meso-american religion told us about white Gods with beards coming from the East

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