MOROCCO

By the end of 15th century Arabs made it to Philippines (there is still a local muslim minority) and whoever lived in Spain at that moment did discover Azores and Canary Islands. Another discovery that pre-existed Columbus and made the voyage West possible: trade winds, or easterlies, are east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in Earth's equatorial region. The exploration of the oceans was "game on" by that time. You didn't need a genius from Italy to come up with an idea of "let's sail West and see what's there". What's more important, you didn't need a Western European to do that. North Africans were quite successful sailors (and merchants, and pirates) and, given the advancements of Arabs in the Indian ocean, there is no reason to suggest any less exploratory initiative from their Moroccan "bretheren". Columbus had to sail down south to Canary islands to catch the trade winds, and those are much closer to Morocco than to Spain. How would a guy from Italy come up with this route? What could he know that local Arabs didn't?

Knowing all of the above, the story of Columbus sounds like a propaganda legend retro-fitted by Italians into the actual history of world exploration. That would be just a theory, but the official version of New World discovery has another major problem: the name "America" itself. Apparently that's a name of some guy "Amerigo" who realised "it's not Asia".

First of all - why would they think it was Asia? That's an easy one: the "Indians" they met there looked like people from East Asia. That's what they still look like today in Alaska or Amazonian jungle. Europeans might have seen such people in Middle East and by that time they knew that similar people live far East. Neither Columbus nor anybody thought "that's India", they thought they approached Japan and China.

Amerigo Vespucci never went around Americas, yet somehow he concluded in 1502/1503 that these new shores are not Asia. HOW? There is no explanation in official history. Even more miraculous is the fact that his "hunch" is accepted as certain truth and popularised and the whole new world is named after him just 5 years later by German cartographer in 1507. Too soon? Poor Amerigo hasn't even died yet! He was never proclaimed a Saint. He wasn't a Pope, an Emperor or a King. Yet such an honour from some foreign guy who never met him. Europeans reached Pacific only several years after that, in 1513. Even that wouldn't be a certain proof of "it's not Asia" given that people all over Americas looked "asians". The first guys who could have made such claim would be the Magellan's crew who went around the globe in 1519-1522, assuming that story and dates are true.

Official story is not only clearly "eurocentric", not only "smells" of Italian influence, it simply makes no sense. People who wrote up these legends and forged historical documents, maps, letters, didn't coordinate their activity well enough. Usually conspiracy theories are opposed with an argument "such perfect system of lies can't exist". Well, - it is VERY NOT perfect. Even official historians admit that Vespucci is the most enigmatic and controversial figure in early American history. The story of Amerigo is the weakest link in this chain of lies. Why would such far-fetched story even be needed? Couldn't they call it "Columbia" after all? Or simply "New World"? Or "West Asia Indies"? Apparently they did use all those names here and there, yet "Amerigo" was necessary, probably because the term "America" was widely known and used and people who re-wrote history had to make it look European, preferably Italian, which it clearly was not. Guess how many other Italians by the name "Amerigo" we've heard of? 0. Not only they guy makes a super-lucky wild guess, not only his unproven guess is immediately acknowledged "worldwide", but his name is also somewhat unique!

What was his made up name covering up? Well, probably the fact that America was discovered by Moroccans, who lived right next to Canary Islands. "Morocco" is English mispronounciation of Spanish "Marruecos" which is mispronounciation of Arabic "Marakesh". In Spain, with "Phoenitian" article "ha-" the "Marruecos" would be "Ha-Marruecos". With Arabic "al-" it would be "Al-Marruecos". "America" vs African "Morocco" is like "Britain" vs French "Bretagne".

Another hint in this direction is name "Carribean". In Arabic there is a word "qarib" (قارب) which means "small boat". The fierce tribes of Caribs were probably descendants of first Arabic colonists who arrived on "qaribs" and mixed with locals.