who discovered America?

Answer 1

The Vikings were visting the North American continent long before Columbus. They had established settlements in Icelane , Greenland, and the Faero Islands.
There were also traders from Africa and Phoenicia that pre date Columbus. Columbus never stepped foot on the North American continent.

The name America is a tribute to Amerigo Vespucci. See links below;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
http://geography.about.com/cs/historicalgeog/a/amerigo.htm

Answer 2

In the traditional sense that we use, Eric the Red, who was the father of Leif Ericson, discovered it and used the coastal areas for re-supply, but the Vikings did not establish a permanent settlement. I have seen evidence of what remains of a longboat tie off. (in the style of the Vikings) in the northeast US. I don't remember where it is, but we never used such a manner, so it is easy to draw the conclusion that it was Norse.

In the opposite use of the word discover, we have the Ananazi
who are called the "old ones" by the Native Americans.
As I understan it, they were the first, even before the Eskimo and Inuit.

Answer 3

Amerigo Vespucci discovered South America

Answer 4

No one knows. However, by the time Columbus arrived in the New World there were already millions of Native Americans, Aztecs, Mayans, Incas, etc. They were fighting over land and control already and were developing advanced systems of culture and civilization.

What might not be generally known, however, but which is becoming stronger and stronger in thought and evidence, is that the first Americans came from Europe and were later displaced by immigrants from Asia across the Bering land bridge. To date, the oldest dozen skeletons found in the Americas, including Kennewick man, were all Caucasian. They were later dominated and conquered by Asians.

Answer 5

Depends. Native peoples from Asia crossed the Land Bridge to North America in prehistoric times. The first Europeans to set foot on North America were more than likely Viking seafarers and raiders.

Answer 6

We know for a fact the following groups all found the New World:

Native Americans
Polynesians (if you count Hawaii)
Ainu
Leif Erickson/Vikings
Columbus/Spain

The Portugeuse, Basque, western Africians, and Chinese also have some credibility in claims that they made it to the New World before Columbus - in that order of probability.

Answer 7

If you are talking about the word it was the Italians If you are talking about the land, everyone who has ever been born there or arrived some other way.

I think you ment who discovered it first. That question is much better, who can answer that?

Answer 8

Chomolaka Benjugamin in they year 12,432 BC. He was crossing over from Siberia, and he said "I claim this land for the Bolobengundians, and i shall call it Bolobengund." Obviously, the name didn't stick.

Answer 9

The Indians then Christopher Columbus

Answer 10

Leif Erikson and the Vikings.