who discovered america?

Answer 1

The Native Americans who crossed over from Alaska.

Answer 2

The earliest known use of the name America for this particular landmass dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived from the Latinized version of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America, as the other continents all have Latin feminine names.

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Vespucci's role in the naming issue, like his exploratory activity, is unclear and most probably a tale. [citation needed] Some sources say that he was unaware of the widespread use of his name to refer to the new landmass. Others hold that he promulgated a story that he had made a secret voyage westward and sighted land in 1491,[citation needed] a year before Columbus. If he did indeed make such claims, they backfired, and only served to prolong the ongoing debate on whether the "Indies" were really a new land, or just an extension of Asia. Christopher Columbus, who had first brought the region's existence to the attention of Renaissance era voyagers, had died in 1506 (believing, to the end, that he'd discovered and colonized part of India) and could not protest Waldseemüller's decision.
Map of America by Jonghe, c. 1770.
Map of America by Jonghe, c. 1770.

A few alternative theories regarding the landmass' naming have been proposed, but none of them has achieved any widespread acceptance.

One alternative, first advanced by Jules Marcou in 1875 and later recounted by novelist Jan Carew, is that the name America derives from the district of Amerrique in Nicaragua. The gold-rich district of Amerrique was purportedly visited by both Vespucci and Columbus, for whom the name became synonymous with gold. According to Marcou, Vespucci later applied the name to the New World, and even changed the spelling of his own name from Alberigo to Amerigo to reflect the importance of the discovery.

Answer 3

Columbus had a map, it just didn't go as far as he thought. I wonder who made his map.

The Vikings were on the Alantic coast of North America about 300 years before Columbus.

But I also remember hearing in the 80's about a boat found somewhere in the US that was from the Orient, and I believe it predated the Vikings, maybe around the year 1000.

They claim that people came across from the Ukraine/Russia area 1000's of years ago, by way of the North Pole, and then migrated south. I have my doubts about this, considering the fact that it is so frikin cold up there.

But I go with the Tower of Babel in Genesis 9 .

Answer 4

Everybody is wrong. It was Brendan the Navigoator who led his Irish crew to Massachutes in about 700. Its in National Geographic and they have found ancient Celtic writing about Chrismass in the state.
Of course some of my Indain ancestors were there to say hi when they landed. Its also known that Columbus went to Ireland to study old books and maps. The Irish also discovered and lived on Iceland till the Norse murdered them. They used Irish info to go to N America

Answer 5

Cristobal Colon/Christopher Columbus

Answer 6

Grog of the Cave Bear Clan was dubbed "first to discover America" by the tribal elders, for his crossing the Bering Strait ice bridge in 35,563 BC chasing wholly mammoths...

Answer 7

Early Native Americans, during the last Ice Age (crossed over the Bering Strait).

Answer 8

One theory is that Asians migrated across the area of the Bering Strait and gradually migrated across North and South America, eventually becoming the indigenous peoples of the continent. Then the white man came, did the genocide thing, either on purpose or incidentally, and here we are posting on Yahoo.

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Answer 9

Recent evidence found on the east coast indicates that European
occupation pre-dates that of a bering strait crossing.{Discovery channel}.

Although it really doesn't matter who 'discovered' America, what matters is who made it what it is-White Europeans.

Answer 10

in what context? The vikings found it before columbus, but the native indians found it way before them.