No European had ever set foot on the American continents prior to Columbus´ arrival in 1492. True or False?

Question

No European had ever set foot on the American continents prior to Columbus´ arrival in 1492. True or False?

Answer 1

False.

Vikings came, and even settled, long before Columbus.  

Also, there is the theory that some people are specialists at making connections, showing off, and taking credit for things others already had achieved.  Some obscure fishermen from Portugal probably visited North America before Columbus, but Columbus had the idea to check it out and take all the credit for it.

Answer 2

VERY unlikely!  There's the legend of the Welsh Prince Madoc's voyage to some place in the gulf of Mexico about A. D. 1170; there are the Vinland Sagas recounting Leif Ericsson's voyage to land west of Greenland around A. D. 1000; there's the account of St. Brendan's voyage to the isles of the Blessed, far to the west of Ireland, in the early 500s; there are rock carvings in the Midwest that look suspicously like pre-Christian Irish inscriptions. Columbus was probabzly just the first Euopean whose arrival in the New World led to anything permanent.

Answer 3

there are some theories (especially the one saying Viking was the first Europeans), but we never know

Answer 4

False explorers from China beat them all here but found nothing of intrest to them

Chris was at least 4th in line

Answer 5

Leif Erikson and his crew of vikings were the first to set foot other then the nomadic tribes that came over from eastern russia over the bering pass

Answer 6

False. The Vikings were certainly there, probably around Newfoundland. There are also claims that Irish monks may have discovered it at around the same time as the Vikings did.

Answer 7

False.  Folks are pretty sure that Leif Ericson was here.  There is also some evidence that Celtic prince Modoc was here waaaay before Columbus.  The indians talked about a fight near the Ohio River with some light skinned people.  They say they wiped them out.  There was also a cache of welsh coins found near the falls of the Ohio that date to about the same time as Modoc.

So, while there are some who might deny any European presence here before Columbus,  I would say the answer is still "false".

Answer 8

I agree with FALSE answers