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actually the oldest skeletons found in the Americas out date when eriksin should have come here. there was a caucasoid and a negroid skeleton found in the americas that far out date ANY so called native american remains. the caucasoid was in the northern regions (viking). negroid found in south america (africa)
Africa actually had the most sophisticated trade routes and means to trade by, but portugal knocked them back to the stone age for their Islamic temples along the coast. it was at this point when african tries began warring and trading eachother as slaves.
NO< the europeans never once went into mainland africa to "kidnap" slaves. they were purchased from warring tribes who had no means left to trade by.