That is very possible. Europe was quite as populated as it was when Columbus made his journey, There wasn't the population pressures that really spurred the explorations of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. With lower populations there was also less disease.
-----Original Message----- From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 6:26 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America I wonder if the diseases that ended up killing so many had mutated by the point that the vikings were there. It's possible that the diseases simply didn't exist yet. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > micmac and beothunk people on the island of newfoundland apparently,so > that lack of population would not have been the reason. Maybe it > happened but was not recorded, or the history was lost. > > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > yeah I got that part. What I was thinking about was which indigenous > > peoples were around to get infected in the first place. Did the > > Inuit go that far east? The Cree? Did they have boats capable of > > getting there > from > > the mainland? Just thinking out loud. > > > > > > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Larry C. Lyons > ><larrycly...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> > >> Its on the island of Newfoundland. According to current theory it > >> was more of an exploration base rather than the Viking settlement. > >> Moreover the climate then was warmer, very similar to what they > >> were used to in Greenland and Iceland. > >> > >> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > Don't know. There's quite a bit of information here if anyone > >> > wants to > >> read > >> > it -- don't have time to do more than skim today myself, tho I'm > >> interested > >> > in an academic way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland > >> > > >> > An alternate theory is that there may not have been many Native > American > >> > settlements right there - L'Anse aux Meadows is not the most > hospitable > >> > place I'd guess, based on geography. And hmm, what people would > >> > that > be? > >> > Inuit? Wouldn't you need more than a kayak to get there? On the > >> > other > >> hand, > >> > the wiki article seems to be saying the Norse were visiting a > >> > region a > >> lot > >> > bigger than that. > >> > > >> > It's an interesting question. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry C. Lyons < > larrycly...@gmail.com > >> >wrote: > >> > > >> >> > >> >> I was thinking that Greenland had regular contact with Norway > >> >> and Denmark, not exactly the most isolated of areas. I would > >> >> have > expected > >> >> that mainly after the settlement of the vinland theree would > >> >> have > been > >> >> some outbreak. > >> >> > >> >> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > no epidemics going on there at the time they left? Also, > >> >> > didn't the > >> >> people > >> >> > who landed in Newfoundland and Quebec come from the Greenland > >> >> settlements? > >> >> > They would have been pretty isolated from disease vectors in > >> >> > Europe > >> (?) > >> >> > Just thinking out loud -- I don't know any more about this > >> >> > than I > >> just > >> >> read. > >> >> > > >> >> > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Larry C. Lyons < > >> larrycly...@gmail.com > >> >> >wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> >> > >> >> >> I did a couple of archeological field schools in college. One > >> >> >> was > at > >> >> >> L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. I sincerely hope that the > >> winters > >> >> >> were mild there (they were not), because those huts were > >> >> >> pretty miserable. While most of the six weeks were just > >> >> >> scraping away as > >> the > >> >> >> dirt, I did find a couple of flint arrowheads at about the > >> >> >> right > >> depth > >> >> >> for the time period. So at the very least there were locals > >> >> >> near > the > >> >> >> Vikings campsite roughly around the same time as the Viking Sagas. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> One thing about that massive disease outbreak after Spain > >> >> >> started sending ships to the west, why didn't something > >> >> >> similar happen > when > >> >> >> the Vikings came over? > >> >> >> > >> >> >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Eric Roberts > >> >> >> <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > You should go to Chillicothe Maureen... You can still hear > >> >> >> > the > >> voices > >> >> >> > echoing... > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- > >> >> >> > From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] > >> >> >> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 7:32 PM > >> >> >> > To: cf-community > >> >> >> > Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the > >> >> >> > Founding of > >> >> America > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Eric Roberts > >> >> >> > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> Chillicothe, OH. Other mounds in their culture include > >> >> >> >> the > >> mounds > >> >> >> >> just east of St. Louis, MO in Cahokia, IL. > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > I visited the Cahokia mounds about 15 years ago. Beautiful > spot, > >> but > >> >> >> > spiritually dead. When those folks left they took > >> >> >> > everything > with > >> >> them, > >> >> >> > even their power. > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > The Rock Eagle Mound in east Georgia, however, is still so > >> powerful > >> >> that > >> >> >> the > >> >> >> > air around it sings. It would have been magical to attend > >> >> >> > one > of > >> the > >> >> >> > ceremonies there > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351513 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
