its not Colombus the person that has discovered America?

Question

then who is ?????

Answer 1

YES

Answer 2

The Native American Indians who have lived in America far longer than before Columbus sighted America. If you look up a history of the world and the development of countries, you'll see how people travelled and settled as the world was changing. Like Australian Indigneous people (Aboriginals), who arrived and first settled in Australia 40,000 years ago. I don't trust science with dates though, anymore, not since I read an article on some science whiz uni student who discovered an error in scientist's methods of dating places and things. But still, there is evidence of people arriving quite a long time before these so-called discoverers.

There is dispute about vikings being there first, but I believe it was the Indians.

Answer 3

The first people to discover America were the Native Americans including the American Indians and the South and Central American Natives (such as the Aztecs and Mayans to name a couple). They were here long before Columbus came over. The Natives came through Alaska and made their way South. Columbus is a European trying to find a short cut to India and landed in the Americas. He assumed he had landed on India which is why he called the Native Americans "Indians".

Answer 4

Even though the country had been inhabited by Indians for many centuries, Christopher Columbus has became famous as the man who "discovered" America in 1492. However, he was not even the first European to reach the North American continent. The first Europeans, the Vikings, arrived in North America in the 11th century.

He named the natives "Indians" because he had believed that he arrived in East Indies, which he believed until he died.

Answer 5

Well, that is what is in the history books, that were written by European imports.

Primative people made their way across the Bering Strait thousands of years ago (current best estimate~17,000). There is physical evidence of Viking colonization in northeastern Canada, and several skeletal remains have been found scattered across the continent that bear features that we now identify as northern European.

I am sure if the history books had been written by the native people of North America, Columbus, if even mentioned, would be in footnote status.

Answer 6

The Native Americans (as we know them today) had been in North America for centuries before Columbus set sail.
Furthermore, there is mounting evidence that the Vikings came to North America to do hunting/fishing etc here hundreds of years before Columbus.

Answer 7

Of one thing we can be certain, Columbus did not discover America.

At best he discovered the Caribbean archipelago.

There are many other contenders, The Vikings, The Chinese - but probably the rightful discoverers are the native Americans who had resided there for 10,000-years or so.

Answer 8

Historians say Amerigo Vespucci discovered America, but with the way some Americans act, I don't know if we really live in a habitable, organized or discovered country. Some of us still act like uncivilized natives.

Answer 9

Some say Lief Erikson and the Vikings.
Some say it was Polynesia people
But since humans crossed the Bering Straight thousands of years ago to become the Anasazi and then the Inidians I think it was Yog Gummwa. Clansman that got lost in the snow in Sideria and wondered across the frozen Bering sea.

Answer 10

Yeas, Columbus is. Amerigo Vespucci is the person America was named to. But if you look deeper in history, than people from Asia came to America first, but that was long time ago, and Columbus was first Europen came there.

Answer 11

Columbus was looking for a new way to India, and he landed in the continent now called North America, .He thought it was India and so the natives were called Indians(wrongly,of course).The continent is named after Amerigo Vespucci, who correctly found out that it was a new Continent