Who discovered America?

Question

Why 3 deferent english spoken countryes side by side there?
Who is Piri Reis?
How it comes Piri Reis made perfect world map before Kolomb arived to thee?

Answer 1

Your line of questioning is muddled.

1. It has always been stated that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. However there has long been the idea that Leif Eriksson was the first European to discover America in 1000.

2. Which are the three countries - USA, Canada and .....? If you count the English-speaking Commonwealth countries, in the Caribbean area of the Americas, then there are many.

3. Piri Reis was a Turkish admiral.

4. Piri Reis' map dates from 1513, twenty-one years after Columbus's discovery. It is based on other people's maps including those of Colombus.
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