when was america discovered?

Answer 1

1501 AD

Answer 2

America wasn't "discovered" at any time, by anyone. Those who say Columbus, 1492, are wrong because he was trying to sail to China; North and South America happened to be in the way. Those who claim the Indians "discovered" America are ignorant and misguided; the ancestors of the Indians were as much invaders of a foreign land as the later Europeans, the only difference being that they were following the migratory trails of their animal prey.

In a sense, "America" is more than geographical features. The land masses have been here for millions of years, but have only been touched by human inhabitants for about the last 15,000 years or so. The term "America" first came into use in 1507, as the feminized form of Amerigo Vespucci's name. As a term to describe the human inhabitants, "American" did not really come into use until the mid-18th Century, during the political conflict between Great Britain and the 13 colonies on the Atlantic Seaboard leading up to the Revolution.

"America" is really a political designation for a society and a people. In a real sense, it did not exist until outside events forced a sense of separate national identity onto a specific group of inhabitants; afterward, the term came to be adopted as a universal concept.

So, I guess the answer to the question, "When was America discovered?" would be sometime between 1763 and 1776.

Answer 3

Recent anthropological studies have postulated (by comparison of cutting edges of spear blades), that a tribe from what is now western France crossed the Atlantic via following the coastal ice plate which was far more southern than the Hebrides and Greenland are today.

These blades found in various parts of N. America are at a soil level deeper than oriental descent native artifacts. These blades match, by expert opinion, exactly with those found in western France from the same time period.

So it looks like "America" (US citizens usually mean USA when stating America, contrary to Canadian and other geographical Americans) was not "discovered."

The pejorative "THEY" who were here, always knew it, America, was here. "They" were here.

We have maps of a warmer Antarctica region pre Columbus, which he used on his voyages.

There are pre Colombian settlement sites evidence, in Newfoundland, Cape Breton and in New Hampshire (a building resembling a Knights Templar Temple and a rock with carving of a Knight Templar) from the 14th C.

There is no definitive answer to your question it is like who built Stonehenge, which pre dates the Egyptian Pyramids and did these influence the Mayan Pyramids and did they influence the Polynesians?

Answer 4

America was discovered approximately 40,000 years ago by the Aleutian tribes which crossed the Bering Strait, which at the time was a giant sheet of ice between Alaska and Russia. These people were the origins of modern-day American Indians.

Columbus did not discover America - - he only rediscovered it!

Answer 5

That's an impossible question to answer. the default answer is usually 1492 since that's when Christopher Columbus set sail.

It is well known that the Vikings were here before that. However there is no documentation as to the exact date. There were Russians living in Alaska long ago when there was a land bridge connecting it to Russia, but again, no specific dates were known. Since the original settlers pretty much killed off the native americans it is impossible to know how long their societies existed in the US as well.

Answer 6

1492 by Columbus. Where have you been? And if you want to get technical, the Vikings discovered America in the 900s.

Answer 7

Discovered by whom? The Chinese? Vikings? Or later European explorers? According to the Viking Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, the Chinese were in what we call North America before the Vikings ever were.

Answer 8

Well...technically it would have to be whenever the Indians came over from the Bering Strait. Europeans didn't discover it, since the native peoples already were living there.

Answer 9

1492 columbus sailed the ocean blue

Answer 10

Dicovered? By whom?

Colombus Landed on 1492, If that's what you ment.