PIRI REIS: Ancient Maps Had He -- Curious Alignments

[Azerbaijanian768]

LONG LIVE TURKS

[plumstreetmusic]

@Azerbaijanian768 Piri Reiss and others have certainly made important contributions to the world.

[saseassociates]

Excellent question! I don't know.

There are a lot of theories, including Mu and Atlantis, floating around. However, no significant evidence has surfaced. A lot of ice on top of anything there. If the axis of the earth has tipped, Antarctica may have been as inhabitable as the southern tip of South America is today.

[bboyJIZ1]

So, who inhabited Antartica 5000 years ago?

[meldufresne]

History is definitely biased. People might want to know this: Charlotte Harris Rees, the daughter of author Dr. Hendon Harris, bought an old American highschool history textbook dated 1910 from an antique/bookstore which taught that the Chinese discovered America before Columbus. Apparently textbooks prior to this date consistently taught this,but books dated after 1910 found in the same bookstore taught that Columbus discovered America fist. So who knows what else has been distorted.

[urbanecondetroit]

@meldufresne This disjuncture in history may be due to the popular sentiment that followed the Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair) in 1893 to mark the 400th anniversory of Columbus's "discovery." I have heard that a group from Minnesota (Kensington Rune stone) protested in favor of the Vikings and other earlier Nordic explorers.

[meldufresne]

@urbanecondetroit  Thanks for this info. I'll do some more research into this.

[urbanecondetroit]

@meldufresne You may also want to research what the (pre-) Rockefeller Foundation was doing with education at that time. As for medicine, they produced the Flexner report which led to putting all med schools under control of the AMA and the closure of homeopathic and related alternative med schools. If you did not focus on pharmaceuticals (derived from petro-chemicals), you were out. Carnegie was also funding a specific agenda in American education at that time.

[HappySweeto]

@meldufresne

Agreed we're slowly but very surely moving forward into the time of 1948

[HappySweeto]

@HappySweeto

Woops meants 1984

[donguinto]

I recommend people read Gavin Menzie's best selling books. The first is "1421: The Year that the Chinese Discovered America" , the second is "1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance". Glen Beck points to these 2 books on his show. Search for: Glenn Beck Show (January 14, 2011): China's Rise, America's Fall?

[plumstreetmusic]

@donguinto I received 1491 for my birthday last year. I agree. A very good treatise. I will look for the other one.

[donguinto]

@plumstreetmusic I hope you meant "1421" and not "1491". Also, the HIstory Channel has a short documentary called "In Search of...Chinese Explorers". It reveals some evidence of Mayan relation to mainland China. You can also check it out on youtube.

[plumstreetmusic]

@donguinto My mistake. The one I have is 1491, about the year before Columbus (re)discovered America. I will look fpr 1421 and 1434. Sounds like 1421 may support the theory of the use of the Chinese magnetic compass by Pre-Columbian inhabitants and their marking of various aligned sites.

[rayalexwebsite]

@donguinto COME on? everyone knows by now that LEIF ERICSSON discovered that darn continent already in 900 BC....Zzzzzzz

[donguinto]

@rayalexwebsite True. The Vikings or Norse also discovered America before Columbus.

[HappySweeto]

@donguinto

Sorry but I gotta point this out- Screw Glenn Beck, he rips off Alex Jones so bad!

[xavierandradev]

@donguinto It is better to watch the PBS documentary. Where they discredit all Menzie's claims.

[nordicblod]

ccc piri reis ccc

[DuffBeerDragon]

I'd say there's two areas of possibility -

given where Plato said Atlantis was and given we know there was a major catastrophe in that general area, Antartica was up where the map shows it to be.

or - 'remained under an ice shelf for the past 4,000 years' - isn't true, they weren't under ice back then in the 1500s.

[giresuncarsi]

you must read the piri reis's book "Kitab-ı Bahriye".

Because, He explains how to draw the world map.

it's very very very interesting.

and his book talk about other famous sailors.

[plumstreetmusic]

Thanks for the reference. I'll check it out.

[plumstreetmusic]

Thanks for the comment. Video is by John Sase (me) who is a member of the PlumStreetMusic arts collective and teacher of Urban Economics. I created all of the videos in the Curious Alignments playlist using PowerPoint which I animated and converted into video.

[142maj]

nice video would like to know who made it?