Stagnation is usually the result of a long imperial occupations. All the ruling minorities care about, obsessively, is to keep power. It always happened like throughout the known history. There is usually a well being even for the occupied, especially the opportunistic collaborationists, but there cannot be true development since the culture of the ruler is different from that of the occupier.
We've seen that in the Soviet Union, where the major source of progress was almost always the import of technology and we can think of all the technology they brought back from Germany or even before, the western style infrastructure built by great American Corporation. But in that prison like country they could not raise generations capable of carrying the progress further, without further infusion.
Today in the whole world. Though there is a whole hierarchy of scientists developed under the current rulers of the world, the ninja of Japan, that's all there is. We have a large scale stagnation in all sciences, especially in medicine and yes, history. Anything that does not fit in current "widely accepted theories" given by the established bureaucratic hierarchy is called "conspiracy theories".
That is the reason, with now all the information available at our fingertips, we cannot proceed to refresh our memories of our distant and more recent past. There are/is a severe cultural imbalance between the true rulers of the world and the rest of us.
There are stories in the Bible about angel like creatures called Cherubs. Why angel like? Could they had have wings? I once wrote a whole blog post about, it was by the time i was not saving locally the pictures, the blog post is now destroyed by missing links.
But the idea is very simple. Cherokee, others, might have crossed the ocean into Europe and Africa, not once, but many times. In Bible times, they became Cherubs. In pre or post Roman Europe, Germans.
The other way around. From India to America, from Australia to America and Europe, etc..
How they did that, they say they were primitive savages (though warriors they have been). This 34 ft (ten meter) pre-Columbian canoe was found in Louisiana. It was dug out of a single cedar tree. But there are other dug out canoes, double that size.
What prompted me to write this tonight? I wanted to know more about the Scythians and their descendants, Sarmatians and out of laziness, instead of reading, i started to watch a video and at some point they were mentioning, quoting the Greeks, that they might have come from over the ocean.
Then i went and searched in the list of American Indian tribes and found one that could fit that linguistic connection. A tribe from the NW (where they were building large canoes). (Yes i have been to that casino too LOL). Not on the Atlantic coast though. But who knows. They could have come to West Coast from East.
All it took was a group of large canoes spirited by a storm into the Mediterranean (Great Britain Northern coast first).