To sum up your question. You think of citizens of Croatia, dont' you? It's CROATS, not Croatians.
I do not know what else would you possibly could think of. And NO, they DID NOT migrate to America prior to 1492, I don't know why are you aking this question, I'm curious, can you tell me more about your desire of asking this particular qouestion. It's strange?
In 15th century croats were preoccupied together with Hungary with defending Europe from Turks. Croatia was then the European last line of defense against the upcoming Ottoman Empire who wanted to come to Vienna trought Croatia and conquer whole Europe. Yes Croats were ship builders and navigators, they had its navy since the year 642, but not to the extent nor the ambition as it was the Portuguese.
The Q about Chinese is interesting, I'm begining to wonder from where are you pulling them of. Chinnese maps and Croats have in common a trader and explorer Marco Polo. It is believed that he was born on the island of Korcula (according to one document from the 15th century, originating from Korcula), although there is no consensus about that.
According to some assumptions, the Polo family originates from the town of Korcula. About the place of his birth there are many polemics, regarding whether he was born in Venice or in the town of Korcula, but there is no dispute about the ground where he was born, because Korcula then was under the temporary rule of Republic of Venice. In fact, the street and the city (according to records that exist even today), in which today is located so called Marco Polo's house, is the exactly same space that correspond to the earliest days of the Polo family.
The origin of the name also has polemics; Italian or Croatian origin, but it seems logical to assume that the name Polo is of Slavic (Croatian) origin and comes from water bird that is in Korcula's area called a "Pol". That supports a coat of the Polo family, which contains four images of water birds, and moreover even the Polo himself was signing with the Slavic (Croatian) "Pol" and not Latinized "Polo". So, you probably know about Marko Polo's "Silk Road" (journey from Venice to todays Bejing).
That trip had an influence on European cartography, leading to the introduction of the Fra Mauro map that is considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography. And that is my dear DAVEPAMN connection beetwen Croats and Chinese trought Marko Polo, and nothing more then that. 55 percent of Croats have ancestors in the area of the Croatia trought more than 600 generations, ie, ancestors of the Croats are in Croatian area for more than 24,000 years.It has been proven by analysis conducted by Ornella Semino and associates.
Croats have about 29 percent of Slavic gene. The beginning of arriving that ancestors of the Croats was 7000 years ago and it lasted up to 7 th century AD, and that is century when Croatia as ethnic group was formed. But 55 percent of the Croats have the gene that comes from immigrants from Middle East and Central Asia 24.000 years ago.
Percentage of discovered genes in Croats: Eu7=44,83%, Eu19=29,31%, (Eu4, Eu9, Eu10, Eu11)=13,79%, Eu18= 10,34%, Eu16= 1,73.
It's CROATS, not Croatians. I do not know what else would you possibly could think of. And NO, they DID NOT migrate to America prior to 1492, I don't know why are you aking this question, I'm curious, can you tell me more about your desire of asking this particular qouestion.
In 15th century croats were preoccupied together with Hungary with defending Europe from Turks. Croatia was then the European last line of defense against the upcoming Ottoman Empire who wanted to come to Vienna trought Croatia and conquer whole Europe.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.