who discovered america?

Answer 1

If you're referring to which European nation first discovered America, it would be Leif Erikson, who led the Vikings from Scandinavia. There is evidence that he may have sailed as far into the Americas as the Great Lakes. Did you know that the President recently signed a bill that commemorates a Leif Erikson Day? It actually makes sense, considering that we have a Columbus day...

Answer 2

Who discovered America? Well, lesse here....

Christopher Columbus, of course, sailed the ocean blue in 1492 in his quest to go east by sailing west, and bumped into America. But, he only set foot on a few islands, never found the continent, and never realized what he'd actually found. It was Amerigo Vespucci who followed in his tracks and realized there was a whole new continent here. Thus the reason the continent is called America, and not Columbia.

However, we now know the Vikings had set up settlements in the northern portions of the continent many years before that. They just didn't bother to tell anyone else what they'd found.

Remains along the California coast and in Central and South America suggest the Chinese and Japanese may have been here even earlier than that.

And then of course, there's the well established belief that people migrated to the continent during the last Ice Age, when hunter/gatherers followed their prey across the then completely dry Strait of Gibraltar, though it's highly doubtful they would even realize they'd "discovered" anything.

Answer 3

Even that the most spread version in this Continent is that Ch. Columbus discovered America in 1492. There are other versions like the one from the Vikings, in which Erick the Red reached Greenland and even the east coast of Canada and the United States around year 1000 a.d.
And there is also a version coming from China that there was a great sailor who reached America long before the Italian Ch. Columbus.
Hopes this awakes even more your interest in this topic.

Answer 4

The Native Americans

Answer 5

The Indians actually inhabited the country for many centuries but Christopher Columbus became famous as the man who founded America in 1492.

http://ntap.k12.ca.us/whs/projects/history/columbus.html

Answer 6

Traditionally it was Christopher Columbus, but the truth is, he got no closer than San Salvador. The first ones to arrive actually on the continent were the Vikings, led by Leif Ericson.(sp.?)

Answer 7

The people that were here before pirate Christopher Colombus stole everyone elses credit. He gets recognition for being a great navigator. He was headed for India, but made a wrong turn, landed here and called the first people he saw Indians. What an idiot and we idiodically celebrate his stupid azz. I actually volunteer to work on that day.

Answer 8

The vikings made the journey way before Christopher Columbus.

Answer 9

Yanky Doodle Dandy and Johny Appleseed

Answer 10

Grog of the Cave Bear Clan was dubbed "discoverer of America" by the elders of the Tribe in the Year 36,562 BC for his crossing of the Bering Strait ice bridge, as he searched for wholly mammoths....