who dicovered america?

Answer 1

Christoper Columbus

Answer 2

There is some truth in most of these answers. To answer who discovered America begs the questions "What is America?" and "Who helped to develop the concept of America?" as well as who was in "America" when it was discovered, and did they believe that they were a part of "America?"
The controversy gets more interesting when you learn that some Native Americans or First Peoples feel that some anthropologists and political philosophers are using the Bering Sea land bridge as a basis to argue that indigenous people do not have a stronger claim to the land than "white" or European and non-indigenous peoples.

Sad to say, most Americans have a really narrow or ill-defined idea of what is America. If you are American, ask yourself, how much of the Constitution do you know? The Bill of Rights? Other than English, what American languages do you know? Do you know, for example, Cherokee, Mohawk, Penobscot, Wampanoag, Hopi? What is your understanding of the American Revolution? Can you sing all the words to The Star Spangled Banner? Are you registered to vote? Have you or someone in your family served in the Armed Forces? What have you done for your country lately?

What does this all have to do with "Who discovered America?" Maybe a lot, maybe just that the quest to resolve this query itself is a journey into knowing America and sorting our legend from history.

Answer 3

The Native Americans are descendants of Mongolians who drifted across an ancient land bridge.

The Vikings were next, course they failed eventually.

Then come the southern Europeans, with Christopher Columbus first "discovering" the New World.

And as to why it's named America and not Columbia is because a seaman named Amerigo Vespucci stole the credit, intentionally or not and got it named after him.

Answer 4

Just about everyone on earth has now, but the first ones were most likely the native American Indians. But when I took history in college, there were a lot of Mexicans that lived in the southern states like Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, and I think French people lived in the Gulf area. So really, who knows who lived here first. But, those people died long ago, so now it belongs to those of us fortunate enough to live here now. Personally, I think the United States should do a purchase thing with Mexico, like we did with Alaska, and all the 'immigration problems would disappear, and we could concentrate on more important things, like hunger on earth, and poverty stricken folks not only in the 'New United States of America' but around the world. Mexico has some very beautiful land, I'd love to live there. But only if it were part of our great nation.

Answer 5

The Americas separated from a land mass known as Pangaea. The Americas drifted West and the Eurasia land mass drifted East, all are still drifting, with others drifting to and from today's land masses which are the Teutonic, or Tectonic, or Tetonic plates ( I never could spell them).
If anyone "discovered" the Western Pangaea it could have been PELEG as the Old Testament describes that the earth separated at his time, thus his name means earth separated. Perhaps Peleg was the last to see the earth as one land mass, saw WEST PELEG or West Pangaea, or the modern Americas drift away westward so that it was he that witnessed or discovered the distancing West Pangea, West Pelegia, in effect the Americas land mass.

Answer 6

There's actually mounting acheological evidence to suggest that there were indiginous people here even before those poeple we now know as "Native Americans" arrived from Asia.

Just a little bit of food for thought. In the mythology of the Pueblo Indians, America, the "fourth world", was given to them and them only when the came here from the pacific islands., and those people who came from the passage to the north, and those who were already here should be killed outright.

Also, we get the name "America" from Amerio Vespucci, and early Italian explorer who charted a large part of the coastline of south america.

Answer 7

Christopher Columbus
Who accidentally discovered America.

Answer 8

The Vikings. The Native Americans had been living there before the Vikings and Christopher Columbus decided to come.

Answer 9

The native Americans, but we do know vikings got here before Columbus. We have found evidence of settlements that were killed off by the climate changes. The Chinese tried to claim that a map they made shows them getting here first, but the vikings predated that map even if it is real. But not matter what, the native Americans did.

Answer 10

I think its Christopher Columbus. Because Amerigo Vespucci id the one given credit for the name of America