what was the usa/america called before it was named america?

Answer 1

Freedonia...........

Answer 2

Try asking Native American's what their anscetor's called this land before Columbus arrived. The Americas were named for Amerigo Vespucci, explorer and mapmaker from Italy who made a couple of trips to explore South America between 1499 and 1502. Martin Waldseemüller named the continet in 1507 after Vespucci.

Before Vespucci and Waldseemüller, Columbus belived he'd found a route to India and China before it was realized he'd ended up in the Caribbean. Since they were refered to as the Indies, so the lands Colmbus "discovered" became the West Indies with the Indies becoming the East Indies.

Answer 3

Before "it" came to be called America, the native peoples did not call "it" anything. Before the coming of the Europeans, with their crosses and their swords and their torture and slavery and death, this land was the ancient home of any number of "tribes," which in the main centered on the land around them, for hunting, for fishing, for the hundreds of religions, etc. For several centuries the Spanish and Portuguese and then the French and English called portions this and that and the other. It was in the U.S. Constitution that the 13 colonies came to be called the "United States of America," and as the clock ticks that wasn't so long ago.

Answer 4

The Colonies, then the United States of America after the Declaration of Independence. America is the Continent we are on.

Answer 5

Nationally it wouldn't have been called anything....since there wasn't a national population like there is now.

The indigenous population would have been local tribes and they would have names for the part of the country where they lived and maybe for the land as a whole.....but they would not have had the knowledge of the nation as a whole.

This is quite common and not just applicable to the US....many parts of Europe a thousand years ago would have been the same.
The Normans from Normandy invaded England in 1066....not the French from France.
And before that there was no King of England....there was a King of Wessex and a King of Cumbria....etc etc.

All smaller areas of what we now call nations.

Answer 6

Turtle Island

Answer 7

The individual colonies (future states) had their own names. There was not a general term yet for all of Britain's North American colonies.

Answer 8

The New World, the Colonies.

Answer 9

Columbia.

Answer 10

My particular piece of it was called Paumonauk by the native people.

Answer 11

New England