2006-11-08 01:04:17 · 11 answers · asked by muaythai 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
The first poster is right. But the first non-Native, non-Military settlements here were British.
2006-11-08 01:08:54 · answer #1 · answered by martino 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
American ancestors are from all over the world.
The colonials who settled in what is now the United States of America traveled from England, but the Anglos, Saxons and Jutes who settled in England were of Teutonic origin (current day Germany, Austria, Netherlands) Europeans. The Spanish and French both had colonies in various parts of the Americas lending to the ancestral pool. On the western shores of the U.S.A. Chinese, Japanese and other orientals came to settle later. And with Hawaii added, there are the Pacfic Islanders.
And there's a theory that the native American tribes travelled across the Bering Straits and down from Alaska hundreds of years ago and some continued on into Mexico and South America.
With the raft experiment "Kon Tiki" the idea that Egyptians travelled to Mexico and South America was explored and found plausible too. A theory for the similarities in the pyramids from the Mayan and Aztec civilizations.
2006-11-08 03:45:52 · answer #2 · answered by Carol G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
America or for that matter 99.99% of the world is or are "not the melting pot of the world ", but rather the temporary depositries of habitation. We are, all the ancestors of the inception of life upon the face of the planet. Life may of began in more then one place but definately not less! For sure, one area was, in a place or country we now call "Iraq" and for the most part habitation of the planet, spread from there...
2006-11-08 02:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by diSota 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first settlements in what is now the continental US were (1) Spanish, (2) British (including Scots & Irish), (3) Dutch, (4) French, (5) Swedish.
2006-11-08 04:40:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In those times British is Europe...God bless!
2006-11-08 01:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
America is called the melting pot because our ancestors are from every country on earth.
2006-11-08 01:06:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mostly Europe. But we're getting them from all over now.
2006-11-08 04:53:38 · answer #7 · answered by Chris J 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everywhere. Some ancestors are from Asia, too.
2006-11-08 01:16:29 · answer #8 · answered by meilin h 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Americans' are a mixture of every country on Earth.
2006-11-08 04:40:06 · answer #9 · answered by Evelyn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Britain is in Europe, so both. Some of us are Irish. You have to think of immigration.
2006-11-08 01:12:36 · answer #10 · answered by fhorncentral 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋