Why Muslims are under rated.

[cratehorus]

If, in the absence of evidence of any transoceanic contact at all, there were "theories" thrown around about first Mesoamerican civilization having to have been inspired by old worlders, be they Norse (Haha!), Chinese (Ha!), Africans (Huh?), but no equivalent theory going the other way, I'd say the write up has a point.

Why is popular junk history not populated by stories of the great stone architecture of zimbabwe being evidence of African culture having been inspired by the renegade band of magalithic building Incas?

There is a theory that the Incas discovered Africa

Tupac Inca navigated and sailed on until he discovered the islands of Avachumbi and Ninachumbi, and returned, bringing back with him black people, gold, a chair of brass, and a skin and jaw bone of a horse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BApac_Inca_Yupanqui

and that the Polynesians discovered South America and were trading Sweet Potatoes with them by atleast 700 AD

Between 300 and 1200 CE, Polynesians in canoes spread throughout the Polynesian Triangle going as far as Easter Island, New Zealand and Hawaii, and perhaps on to the Americas. The sweet potato, which is native to the Americas, was widespread in Polynesia when Europeans first reached the Pacific. Sweet potato has been radiocarbon-dated in the Cook Islands to 1000 CE, and current thinking is that it was brought to central Polynesia c. 700 CE and spread across Polynesia from there.

One is the name of the sweet potato, which was domesticated in the New World. Easter Island kumara and Hawaiian ʻuala (also compare the Māori name kumāra) may be connected with Quechua and Aymara

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbi...ic_contact