It's said they emigrated from Asia over the berring so maybe northern Asian rather than chineese. I dont think it's as simple as that myself as there is likely much more we don't know than we actually know about the first people's of the Americas. It's possible around tens of thousand of years ago others from Europe, Africa and Polynesian islands settled in the Americas too.
Also Columbus wasn't the first to discover the Americas the Vikings were there before them, the Irish before them and others before them but it really wasn't before the age of exploration started by the Portuguese that the ships, technology and navigation knowledge needed to sail vast distances and bring people in such huge numbers existed apart from the Chinese. It's not a stretch to say the Chinese reached America as they long had the ships which dwarfed even 18th century European warships and there is records of a great Chinese expedition as far as Africa.
Columbus was supposedly looking for a route West to India but there's also the belief that Columbus gathered up old knowledge known by the vikings learned from his sailing trips to Ireland and Iceland. Icelanders certainly knew of a land to the west. Templars are supposedly to have known of a land to the west and after their fall the Templars rebranded themselves under different names such as the order of Christ in Portugal which was a major force in the age of exploration under it's master Prince Henry the navigator, they continued their war against Islamic countries doing more damage to the Muslim world than the crusades ever did. Anyway it was said Columbus stole maps from the order of Christ in Portugal.
The Italians cities like Florence, Naples, Venice etc likely pocessed maps locating America and maps of Africa built up over years of trade with the East but kept it secret as it would mean death to their trading empires if new trade routes to India and China were ever found, which is exactly what happened. It may not be a coincidence that the first explorers were all Italians in the service of non Italian powers. The ottomans supposedly knew where America was too as they had maps of it predating European exploration of it as well as maps locating the continent of Atlantis which is actually the Antarctica.
Yep they came over from Asia. Back 10s of 1000s of years ago it was cold enough that there was an ice bridge connecting Alaska to Russia.
Here, you may enjoy this. It's the first part of a documentary on human migration out of Africa.
This is an interesting but also a difficult question to answer because there are practically no pure-blooded Native Americans left. All the people you meet today who claim to be of Native American origin have at least half of their genes from some other ethnic group.
I don't know the series you're talking about but generally speaking, Hollywood doesn't do a very good job at authentically representing Native Americans. For one, they certainly don't/didn't look Chinese. There may be certain features that seem "asian" to you (such as the epicanthic eye fold) but that's because they aren't purely "asian" features, strictly speaking. Of course some Native American tribes did resemble people from East Asia, since that is where they originally came from. However, it has been over 10,000 years since the Americas were first populated and that's a long time. During these millennia, Native American developed into something "of their own".
It's also important to note that not all native Americans look the same. For example Native American in the Amazon region look vastly differently from those in the US. And the ones in the US look different again from the Inuit in norther Canada. Even among the different US-American tribes, there used to be quite a lot of diversity.
For example this guy was probably pure Native American:
I couldn't find a good photo of a Chinese man from the same period but suffice to say that Chinese people typically tend to have rounder faces, flatter/smaller noses, and generally more "soft" features.
well they came from asia. but through hundreds of years of reproduction you are going to get varying looks. similar to why northern italians will often look drastically different than southern italians
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The origin of Native Americans is diverse. Inuit and others came from North East Asia, when there was a geographical bridge that link Asia with North America.
Indigenous from parts of Central America/The Caribbean and bellow, until the far south (Tierra del Fuego) have been studied and according to those studies the indigenous of those regions are related to Polynesian people
What I mention have been actually proven and approved. There are others who claim Vikings settle in North America (true) and that not all of them went back to their homeland (doubtful). Some claim that Celts reach even before (doubtfulx10), and that the Templars Knights visited The Americas, and had it as a secret of state.
Of course we have other hipotesies that says the Egyptians and other African Empires had contact with The Americas long before Erick Erickson (doubtfulx10) arrival, and next ones who say China discovered North America west coast, before closing its doors to the world (very probable).
Native Americans are migrated to America continent using Bering.
They are actually central Asian people and they are similar to Turks and Mongols.
Even native American language is very similar to languages like Turkish and Mongolian. There was a huge chance that they are ural altaic.
Native Americans are actually Asians who travelled to alaska and then spread to the entire North America till they were killed by the European scums
they came over the Bering sea so yes it could very well be
They look like Mongolians.
They look a lot like Polynesians.
That head dress is beautiful
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