Who discovered america?

Question

not including the natives and i'm not looking for the obvious answer.

Answer 1

technically Columbus, but he never got there. It was Amerigo Vespucci, hence the name America.

Answer 2

to my knowledge it was this spanish di,ck called colmbus

Answer 3

It wasn't Christopher Columbus...try the Chinese Admiral Cheng Ho

Answer 4

Not Chineese, but more mongolian, as I Understand it.  They crossed the northern land bridge into America from China/Mongolia before the end of the last ice age.

The grand banks were well known to English fishermen, when it was called the English Sea.  

A stone carving found in New England depicts a knight in chainmail armour.

There is even evidence that a Welsh prince (Maddock) fled Wales and settled in America (There are even Welsh speaking indians).

The Vikings, but everybody knows about them.

So here is what I think happened.  America was a foreign holiday destination for the rich and famouse of the time to get away from the paparatzi (Tapestry weavers and the like).  This was a well kept secret where sailors could get away from the misses for a few seasons and spread their wild oats with the natives.  This worked pretty well until some Portuguese kill joy came along and blew the whistle on them.

GRANDADS - your statues are actually stone heads, clearly depicting ******* features.  These were allongside heads and depictions of Coezacoattle (Think that is spelt right) who is depicted with more mediteranian or european features (A beard being prominent in all statues).  These heads are described as followers or companions to (I am not going to try spelling his name again).  Rather than Aztec, these pre-date by quite a few thousand years and are believed to be amongst the earliest Myan artifacts.  As a footnote, this legend is also the basis for Smiths insistance in the Mormon religion that JC visited America.

Luck

Answer 5

It was the Welsh who discovered America back in 1170, when they landed in what is now Alabama.  There were also many Welsh settlements on the East coast of America and unlike CC and the rest, they blended in well with the native Amerindians.

Answer 6

It was the Viking, Eric the Red

Answer 7

Someone who is now kicking themselves wishing they hadn't for all the ill will the US has fostered in the world.

Answer 8

FEFO it was CRISTOPFHER COLUMBUS.!!!

Answer 9

Not including the first peoples,St.Brendan the navigator got there considerably earlier than the Vikings.

Answer 10

Christopher Columbus

someone had to give the obvious answer...

Answer 11

The English. Thats why everywhere is named after English towns, for instace, New York, named after York, New England, named after England, Boston named after Boston e.c.t

And thats why the Americans speak english and write English too.

Answer 12

The supposition that it was discovered for Western Europe by Columbus is correct, but it is incorrect to assume that others had not been there before him. The trouble is that following the collpase of the Roman Empire, Western Europe lost much knowledge and retreated to being a small mind, flat earther, society. It is more than likely, however, that visitors from both Europe and Asia had visited the American continent long before Columbus. It has been shown that is is perfectly possible to cross the Atlantic in a reed boat, such as those used by the Egyptians or the Pacific on the rafts used there. Remember the distance from the Levant to the Straits of Gibraltar  is c2400 miles, but from Cape Verde (Africa) to the nearest point on the Brazilian coast just 1500 miles. It is, in fact, safer to navigate the 'deep blue', rather than 'coast hop' as most Mediterranean sialors did - better chance in the former to ride out a storm, which would likely blow the latter on to rocks.

Then there is the evidence. First of all, pyramids. These are common to Africa (Egypt and Nubia) and to China, and other Buddist countries. Was this a coincidence ('inventionism') or a practise carried around the world by travellers ('diffusionism')? More likely the latter as the age of the pyramids in Central and Latin America postdate those in Africa and China, sometimes by millennia.

Then we have the as yet unproven evidence. Possible Roman amphorae found off Brazil, the Roman head in the possession of the Aztecs, the possible Hebrew script found on a stone in the USA. There are other similarities - the use of identical reed boast on Lake Titicaca and on the Nile.

The one suggestion that can be discounted is the theory that native Americans crossed from Asia by way of the

Bering Straits land bridge in the last ice-age, (Bereingia). This would have existed from c18,000 to c 10,000 years ago. Quite apart from the fact that any persons crossing would not have been able to progress further, due to the Canadian ice cap, that kind of time scale does not permit the development across North, Central and Latin America of the wide diversities of peoples indigenous thereto.

Answer 13

It's Leif Ericson!

Answer 14

The Chinese.

Incredible, but the arguments are convincing, down to native american's having some chinese dna.

The western world was already well aware of it when Columbus 'discovered' it, and the vikings most likely didn't land on mainland north america.

Answer 15

There are statues in the Central American regions very similar to African statues. This is down to the fact they show people with dark skin, large lips and flat large noses, as can be seen in some Africans. There is and argument that African sailors had discovered America long before Europeans.

Answer 16

Christopher Columbus.

Answer 17

The Romans did first.

Answer 18

Amerigo Vecipucci and the testimony to that is the fact that the continent is named after him (America from Amerigo Vecipucci) and I am 100% sure about it. It wasnt Christopher Columbus He discovered West Indies and he found sea routes.

Answer 19

It was never 'lost' so therefore could not be 'discovered'!

Answer 20

Most probably the first non-American to reach America were the Vikings. Their boats were the best and could have made the voyage at the time.

Answer 21

the Native Americans were already here when the Vikings found it.

Answer 22

Wasn't it Christopher Columbus?

Answer 23

Erik the red

Answer 24

It has always been there and many other cultures did its quick visit, like South Polynesia adventurers, Early Chineses before 1421, Vikings, Arabs in early X century (there are descriptions and north american tribes speaking few arabic words).

My guess goes towards many other cultures not under the spollight because they did not belong to the Eurocentrism/Middleeast vision.