Chapter
When Did the First
People Arrive in ，ca?
oon after Columbus landed in Ame
gan speculathag about the people of
Columbus himself there was no
assumed he d reached some island off the shore
Asia was then sometimes known)， he had few dout
people were (or what to call them). But once it be
Indians were not， in fact， Indians， theories about
where they came from abounded.
One theory which was especially popular in
Indians were survivors of the lost continent of k
cording to stories dating back as far as Plato s dialo~
from Spain to America but had sunk in a great fl，
the people of Atlantis to those of America was
G6mara; in 1552 he explained that the Indians ha
America when Atlantis sunk. As evidence， G6ma
the Mexican Indians used the word \"atl\" for water.
Another persistent theory was that the Indiar
of the L~t tr~he~ ~f I~d， ，~h~e efft!，e t~ &~O.a t
in the Old Testament and who hadn t been heard
theologian named Joannes Fredricus Luminus see
first to make the connection between Jews and A
guing in I567 that both had big noses and strange |
~， Europeans be-
; New World. To
rstery: since he
India (as all of
about who these
ne clear that the
o they were and
ain was that the
ltis. Atlantis， ac-
s， once stretched
~ The first to tie
acisco L6pez de
~een stranded in
3ointed out that
zere descendants
heett chmmcLed
n sknce. A Dutch
to have been the
dcan Indians， ar-
al customs.
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