Who discovered America and When??

Question

I was googling it and i cant seem to find the answer. Does anyone know??

Answer 1

Asians that crossed the Bering Sea.  The Native Americans that were here long ago.

Answer 2

Native Americans were the first, obviously. The rest is up for debate. Some say a Norse by the name of Leif Erickson, in 1000 A.D. There have been claims that earlier maps have been found. It certainly wasn't Christopher Columbus.  

Answer 3

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!

       Columbus arguably knew there was land out in the Atlantic. His contract with the King of Spain talks about it. Chris gets "credit" as his voyage set off the European land rush to exploit and settle the America's We all know who wrote the history books

Answer 4

1.Native American Indians..2.Leif Ericson and then 3.Columbus

Answer 5

Only one-Columbus- claims to be the real discoverer, because all the others discovered a land already occupied by people. Sadly, the original discoverer's name is lost in the mists of time, so it's now left to the reader to decide which of the following to believe.

12th October 1492. C, Columbus

Answer 6

The traditional view is that italian explorer christopher columbus discovered the americas in 1492. However their is evidence suggesting that the first european to land in north america was viking explore Leif Ericson in 1003. They established a colony in canada but it failed due to frequent attacks from the natives and the impractical task of migrating large numbers of people and supplies across the atlantic in longboats  

Answer 7

columbus discovered america. he was trying to find china. he died thinking he found china. but it was really america!

Answer 8

Columbus in 1492

Answer 9

The first non-American to set foot in America was probably Leif Ericson, sometime around 1000 AD. What's more, Ericson knew he had discovered a land not previously known by Europeans, whereas Columbus believed he had simply found a new route to an already known land.

As for who first set foot in America and can therefore claim to be its discoverer, not even archaeologists have been able to answer that question. Although many still believe that ancient Asians walked into America across the Bering Strait, no proof has ever been found. And, while Eskimos certainly share many physical characteristics with people of the Orient, other Native American peoples appear to have quite different origins. It is quite possible that America was originally populated more than once, by more than one people, by more than route.