Who originaly found America?

Answer 1

Actually the "Indians" that people are referring to were either the Silurians from Europe or the Clovis from Eastern Asia. Scientist still aren't sure which came to the North American continent first but it is one or the other.

Answer 2

There is a debate on whether it was the folks that come over the Bearing Straight in North America or a group of people from polonesia and settled in South America. New evidence comes out every day. Of course, you could argue that America didn't become America until it was nemed that in which case it would be a friend of a man named Amerigo Vespucci. See below

"1507, in Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's treatise "Cosmographiae Introductio," from Mod.L. Americanus, after Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) who made two trips to the New World as a navigator and claimed to have discovered it. His published works put forward the idea that it was a new continent, and he was first to call it Novus Mundus "New World." Amerigo is more easily Latinized than Vespucci."

Answer 3

you are approaching this from an Anglosaxton point of view. America was not lost. Vikings did not "find" America; that would be like me driving to New York and since no one in my family knew about New York, claiming that I "discovered" the place. Sadly if that happened and my family eventually over ran the world the history books would say that I did discover America.

The best answer science can give is that the ancestors of Native Americans migrated from the Berlin Strait (it connected Alaska and Russia thousands of years ago, but melted away later) Those people were from China. Their ancestry goes back to Africa just like all of human kind.

Answer 4

There is new evidence that supports a theory that Chineese navigators documented land where the Americas are located in the 5th century. They even have a map charting it. If that qualifies as a discovery, then I guess that would be it.
Traditionally, you may hear that it was the Vikings, Leif Erickson, or Native Americans who migrated from Siberia following prey.
There is always Christopher Columus or Cristobal Colon.

Answer 5

The Native Americans.

Answer 6

Probably the Mongolians coming through Alaska by way of the Bering Strait, who were later to become the "Native Americans".
That's right, the land doesn't belong to the "Indians" either.
Then the Vikings, then Amerigo Vespucci, then Columbus.

Answer 7

Eskimos found Alaska by crossing the bering straits. Branches of them went down the continent forming varying tribes. From the west the Vikings are credited with landing at Newfoundland.

Answer 8

it depends, people from Asia cross the Bering Strait chasing their preys during the last ice age, they settle throughout North and South America. The first European to land in America were the Vikings who landed in 1001, they called it Vineland. and of course Columbus was usually credit with the founding of America

Answer 9

Most people would say Christopher Columbus but he found it on accident; he thought North America was actually India. It was the Native Americans who found it first, because they were here first, or you could also say the Vikings found it first.

Answer 10

The history books claim Columbus but in reality it was the Vikings. Namely, Eric the Red. But more technically, the native American Indians.