did the africans or vikings come to the americas before columbus?

Answer 1

Vikings, they got as far west as Minnesota, where they set up a football team, and have been trying to get to the Super Bowl every since....:)

Answer 2

The Vikings settled New Foundland around 1000 AD and are believed to have explored farther south, although this has never been substantiated with archaeological findings. Eventually the Viking settlers were forced out.

I've never heard of Africans reaching the Americas, although it's not impossible. There are also stories about an Irish monk who stumbled on the Americas while serving as a missionary around 500 years before before Columbus. There is another equally unprovable story about a Genoese merchant sailor who discovered eastern Canada in the early 15th century. Some Pourtugese historians are beginning to argue that sailors exploring the African coast stumbled o Brazil, find a map of ocean currents and it makes more sense, at around the same time period as Columbus.

Answer 3

There's an argument that the Egyptians made it over to South America before the Vikings came across from Greenland. But, for sure the vikings came over way before Columbus did.

Answer 4

could be that both did. There is evidence that the vikings did, but you have to take into consideration that if a N. African state that had a maritime nature, like the Barbary states, had a ship get outside of the Strait of Gibraltar, trade winds would have taken them slightly south and then directly across into the area of the Americas. Those same trade winds were what Columbus used.

Answer 5

The Vikings did, and Asians did, that's where the Native Americans are thought to have originally come from, I never heard about Africans though.

Answer 6

There is evidence that the Vikings settles in eastern canada in 1000 ad.

But there are also stories that Basque sailors,Irish monks, the Chinese, and Africans made it to North America. Unfortunatly there is no evidence that shows any of these people came.

Answer 7

Yes the Vikings came to New Foundland around 900 AD.The leader of the expedition was Leif Ericson and they named the new found territory "Vinland".Somehow they never returned there.The Africans never came to the americas before Colombus.

Answer 8

Yes. Vikings came down from Iceland and Greenland, but Africans didn't come over until slavery in the South. Don't forget about the American Indians! :)

Answer 9

Weren't no afrcians unless they were with the Vikings. Vikings yes and they used info they got from the Irish who made it hundreds of years earlier and who were waiting for them in Iceland when they "discovered it". Of course they killed the Irish they found there

Answer 10

Of course they did. And many others too. America (or Abya Yala, as original inhabitants call it) was well known many years before Columbus came. There are a lot of evidences about it.

Answer 11

The Vikings did; the Africans did not. Let's not rewrite history. We have had enough of that already with the Kennedys!!

Chow!!