in school i learned that the vikings discovered america first, but there si something wrong there since it was

Question

supposely the indians..

i ment is*

i mean i am confused , who discovered america first, ?

Answer 1

Much of "History" is based on a lie.

Answer 2

They say people walked into North America from Asia across the Bering Strait at least 15,000 years ago, probably more like 30,000. Those people migrated all the way down into South America, but some of them stayed in North America and became Indians.

When they say someone "discovered" America they usually mean "discovered for Europe." This type of discovery may have been made by Leif Ericson not long after the year 1,000, but the evidence is not conclusive.

There was also a recent discovery of evidence that 30,000 years ago people from Ice Age France wandered across a frozen Atlantic ocean and settled for a time in North America. Artifacts that have only been found in France and North America date back 30,000 years, and the Northern American Indians were found to share 25% of their genes with people in a small region of France.

Answer 3

It depends what you mean by "discovered." Yes, about 10,000 years ago, give or take a few thousand, inhabitants of modern-day Siberia managed to make their way over an ice-bridge then connecting Alaska to Kamchatka. Shortly thereafter, a change in the earth's climate opened up a narrow passage through the ice barrier which allowed them to migrate both south toward the Great Plains and East toward Nunavut and Greenland, which was also connected at the time. However, they did this as individuals and small groups and had no writing system, so they were totally unconnected with their Siberian ancestors, and within a few generations regarded America as their homeland.

In the early part of the last millenium, there was a brief period of global warming, which coincided with the beginnings of Western Europe's rise out of the Dark Ages. During this period, Vikings of Norse decent discovered Iceland (and this time there is little question; before the Vikings there were no inhabitants). From there, they managed the journey to Greenland, which due to the warmth of the period was actually much greener than it is today, and could support limited shepherding and small gardens. There they ran into the Inuit, descendents of the earlier Siberian immigrants.

From Greenland, their ships could (barely) reach areas of Baffin Island and Newfoundland, and a small colony was established. However, Greenland itself was a tiny colony (okay, technically, it was 2 tiny colonies, one on the east coast and another on the west), and it was impossible for ships of the time to make the journey all the way from Europe to North America, so the connection to the homeland was tenuous at best. It would often be decades between ships' arrivals at the tiny Greenland colony.

It's not really known what exactly happened to either of those 2 colonies; what is known for certain is that temperatures dropped again in what is known as the "Mini Ice Age" and Greenland could no longer support even limited agriculture. Recent studies suggest that more and more the Vikings were forced to rely on fishing and seal-hunting as the primary means of sustenance, but without regular shipping between Greenland and Iceland they were left without cloth, fruit and vegetables, and even wood for shelter, heat, and their boats (Greenland has no trees), and eventually were basically starved out. Even though it is warmer and suited for Norse agriculture, North America was only reachable through the Greenland colonies, and with those only being reached by Norse boats sporadically, one can imagine that the American colonies were either abandoned or died out without contact with their homeland.

Now, for the answer to the actual question as asked: one can say that the Vikings "discovered" America in as much as they were the first ones in America with the ability to relate their discovery to others, i.e. writing, and the historical knowledge that what they were "discovering" was previously unknown. The Siberian immigrants may have been the first ones there, but they could not relay their discoveries, nor would they have thought of them as discoveries at all.

Answer 4

Hi ,, the native americans were already here, when the Vikings and the Spanish showed up..

What your wanting to say is the Vikings were the first to discover the new world, but did not set up a colony that stayed..
Then when Columbus found the New World, and set up colonies that stayed, he was first given credit for it... until proven in the last few years that the Vikings were here first.. in the Newfounland area....

good luck

Answer 5

What's the point of discovering something if you never tell anyone about it? It is as though nothing ever happened. No one can confirm or refute. Who is to say. It seems to me events must be recorded some way to qualify for official discovery. In the court rooms hearsay carries no weight. There were mound builders in Ohio but what discovery did they provide? Stonehenge is evidence of someone being there but what did they discover? To 'discover' it seems to need a connection to further knowledge or recordation. If the Indians sailed to Europe before Columbus sailed to America, would they have 'discovered' Europe?

Answer 6

The vikings were the first to explore the world, including the northern continent; their descendents came from slaves they took when they conquered lands, thus the indians.

Answer 7

Technically, the Indians were first.

Answer 8

indians that traveled over the ice bridge from asia