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Does anyone have an more sources that mention Romans in other parts of the world?



The Romans visited the Canary Islands. This is well known and acknowledged by mainstream History.

The Canary Islands are a great stop en route to America. In fact, that's the one Columbus used.


>The Canary Islands are a great stop en route to America. In fact, that's the one Columbus used.

If you're implying that should be used as evidence supporting romans having explored north america, that's really a stretch. Looking at a map, the canary islands are close to the roman empire's territory and the romans could have been there for plenty of reasons besides going to north america.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Islas_Canarias_(real_loca... and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Roman_Em...


I have not implied it can be used as evidence.




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