How long Amereca was discovered?

Question

How long Amereca was discovered?

Answer 1

well by the Vikings first   ,  accredited it to Christopher Columbus   though.  ..  but when you say discovered   ,  by who??  There were  original Indians  who crossed he Behring straits  from Asia    thousand or more years ago.

Answer 2

There are dated archaeological sites of 16,000 years ago. One, Monte Verde, is in southern Chile, so people had to have traveled for years.

Less documented and much more controversial are sites with dates of 38,000 and 50,000 years.

Currently, based on language, DNA and artifacts it's likely people reached the Americas on the order of 20.000 years ago.

The first people into the Americas were nomadic hunters. They didn't plan to come here, they followed the migrations of the game. There was no point where somebody said "hey, welcome to the New World" Like most people, they were interested in getting enough to eat and leaving things a bit better for their children. We don't consider them "Native Americans" as they weren't born here and they predate the development of today's Native Americans (Indians). Rather we call them "PaleoIndians." They were the first explorers.

They walked across dry land from Asia. The great ice age lowered the water of the Bering strait and created a new land, Beringia. Beringia is generally thought to have been a flat plain, dry and dusty. It did support plant and animal life.



Bjarni Herjulfsson should have been the European discoverer of America. However, he was more interested in getting to Greenland. About 986 Herjulfsson, sailing to Greenland from his native Iceland was driven far off course by a fierce storm. He came to a heavily forested land. Rather then land, he told his crew that it couldn't be Greenland because of the trees. The sailed north and saw several more "lands" each time Herjulfsson, declared it not to be Greenland (although he'd never been to Greenland before)

Bjarni Herjulfsson got to the Americas but it seemed he either wasn't interested or had pressing business in Greenland.

Some years later, in 1000 AD Leif Erikson, Herjulfsson's ship, set off on his quest of discovery. He found the land noted by Herjulfsson and settled for a winter in a place called Vinland. The term "Vinland" has for years been though to refer to grapes. However, the term "vin" can also be used to mean "field." The "grapes" reported by Leif were either elderberries or good real estate marketing. Remember his father called a barren island "Greenland"

One Norse site in Northern Newfoundland has been excavated and determined to have been used about 1000 AD. However, that's not proof it was Vinland.

After one year, Leif returned to Greenland. On his way he rescued a shipwreck group of sailors and earned the nickname "Lief the Lucky." Not for his discovery of Vinland but for his rescue!

There were several further Norse expeditions to Vinland. Several ended with death and defeat from the Native Americans. To have a successful colony would have required the migration of the majority of the people from the Greenland Colonies. The Norse were at the end of a very long supply line from Europe. They simply were committed full-time to holding the Greenland settlements. In the end, with poor supplies, climatic change and attacks by pirates, the settlements failed.

Leif Erikson gets the European credit for being the "discoverer"  and "first explorer" of the Americas. However, thousands of Native Americans didn't even know the Americas were "lost." They were living here already!



As for Chris, his voyages caused a surge in exploration and settlement. That's why he gets credit for "discovery."

Answer 3

I DONT KNOE

Answer 4

Officially 1492...so 516 years ago.

or the Vikings got there first.

Answer 5

The Chinese found it ages before old Chris.

Answer 6

The "new World" or the America continents were first settled during the last Ice Age as early as 15,000 years ago. These would have been the first human "discoverers" of the Americas though contact with the "old World" (Europe) did not occur until the vikings landed on Newfoundland about 1000 AD. This was the discovery purportedly led by Leif Ericson.

This landing however did not result in colonization or settlement by the Vikings as the settlements they did begin lasted only for a few years. This information mostly comes from Viking sagas and historical Viking records.

Christopher Columbus was the first European explorer who made it apparrent that there was indeed a great deal of land and money to be taken which is why you were erroneously taught that he discovered the Americas. The first of these voyages was in 1492.

The idea that the Chinese discovered of the Americas prior to Christopher Columbus is based on a map that was proven to be drafted in the 18th century and not in the early 15th as previously believed.

So in answer to your question. 15,000 years ago by the natives, 1000 years ago by the Vikings, and 500 years ago by the rest of Europe.

Answer 7

Europeans "discovered" america in 1492.  By that, I mean that this was the first time that the Europeans became truly aware that there was a huge land mass here, a land that they had no real knowledge of beforehand.  Northern Europeans had already touched the Americas in the north but did not realize what they had found and did not stay (apparently).

Since people were already living here at the time of the 1492 "discovery" and had formed several highly developed civilizations before then, it is safe to say that america was "discovered" by people much earlier, people that came and stayed and lived and died and did everything people tend to do while living their lives.  Possibly some 30 thousand years ago or maybe even earlier was when the earliest invaders from eurasia-africa migrated to the Americas.

There were several waves of in-migration, the most recent is the european influx (followed rapidly by the asians and africans) that started in the 1500's and continues until this day.

There is a lot we do not know yet about the details of humans populating the americas.  The earliest people apparently migrated over from asia, on foot and maybe by boat.

Answer 8

about 27 foot 6 Inches

Answer 9

"in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue"

Obviously people had dicovered it before then - teh native Americans for one, who were living there!

But 1492 is when it was 'rediscovered' by Europeans.