who discovered america .because by the time columbus got there peoples allready there couple of millenia?

Answer 1

Aside from the people who were living in the Americas at the time of Columbus, numerous 'Old World' people have been found to have beaten him to it by rather a long time.

There is evidence that Norwegian Vikings had settlements in what is now Greenland. Given their immense skill at navigation it made sense to look at the coastline of Canada and the US for evidence, and hey presto, Viking settlements in north eastern North America.

Prior to Viking settlement, the Romans may have been trading with the New World. Roman shipwrecks have been found along the Atlantic coast of South America, far too many for it to have been, as it was suggested, a few random ships getting blown across the Atlantic accidentally and wrecked.

Lately, it has been found that archaeological discoveries on the eastern seaboard of America match exactly the evidence found of a Mesolithic tribe in what is now France dating from almost ten thousand years ago. Either they reached America themselves, or someone was trading. And that means someone was going there at a very early date.

Either way, Columbus wasn't the first. And to be fair, he didn't even think he'd found anything other than an unexplored bit of Asia. And he died still believing that.

Answer 2

There are several theories as to the discovery and settlement of the Americas, but one thing is clear: Columbus was a late comer. Prior to him, Asian tribes crossed from Asia to America through the Bering Strait. Other possible versions have Polynesians landing in South America (Chile's Eastern Island has a Polynesian population and travelling from there to the mainland was not an impossibility) and Mandingos from Africa visiting Mexico and influencing the native culture (See the Olmec head sculptures). These theories (and others which claim that Chinese, Japanese, Irish and Welsh also came) have yet to be proven. Already beyond dispute are the temporary settlements of Vikings in Northern America. Columbus stumbled into the Americas on his way (he thought) to India and claimed to be the first non American to come here. Not so.

Answer 3

People from Asia crossed the land bridge that linked Russia and Alaska together. They became the Native Americans. Also about 500 years before Columbus arrived Leif Erikson founded Newfound Land in present day Canada. Columbus wasn't even the first European in America. By the way technically Columbus never actually found America he landed in the Caribbean.

Answer 4

While it is true many people did indeed arrive in America before Christopher Columbus, most people accept Columbus as the discoverer of America because it is so well documented and was a properly funded expedition of discovery by the Spanish Court.

It's rather like the concept that History of the UK starts with Julius Caesar marching up the beach at Deal, tripping over his toga and proclaiming, "vene vide viche" [or some such] "I came I saw, I conquered."

Actually he did no such thing. But, for historical reasons, we agree that this is when history for UK starts. It's when writing gets introduced to Britain for the first time.

We all know of course that a great deal of unwritten 'history' took place long before Julie arrived. Such as Stone Henge etc.

But there you have it.

Answer 5

Depends, theres no conclusive WRITTEN records of a discovery prior to columbus. However there may be some justification in the suggestion the Vikings went there, ive even heard theories about the Phoenicians and Welsh(ancient britons)!!!

In south america, they have found human remains from three different racial types. The most common type are remains that suggest the first settlers were of a siberian type of people. But more recently they have found skulls that match a race called the ANU, who still live on northern japanese islands, and remains of fair haired people in peru! ll these go back many thousands of years....my bet is the ANU!

Answer 6

Knew I'd seen this before! Here you go -

The accepted version is that Clovis man from North Asia settled in America 13,000 years b.p. by way of the land bridge over what is now the Bering Sea. Clovis people are associated with the Clovis point to their stone tools, i.e. fluted tools with parallel or slightly convex sides and a concave base [Baker], which are found in North and Central America and have been dated to between 15,000 and 9,000 b.p. However, there is new evidence for people being in America at least as early as 50,000 years b.p. And there is other evidence that an earlier people, possibly an Australian or Polynesian race, were displaced by the Clovis people. Possibly the last survivors of this original people were the Pericues tribe of Baja California, who became extinct in the 18th century. This idea is politically controversial, as it could undermine Native American claims to land taken from them by Europeans, if it can be shown that they displaced an earlier people in their turn.

Answer 7

I do not think that Colombus was even the first one to discover the place, as probably other earlier Europeans had stumbled upon it. The vikings were the first to stumble upon north America, and others after that probably did stumble upon it but died before reaching home. However, leaving this apart, there existed a land bridge from which oriental people, most probably mongolians, came to North America.These natives had formed their lifestyle 100s of years or perhaps 1000s of years before Columbus.

Answer 8

what? you think the indigenous people were there because someone had to have delivered them? huh? for the past 30,000 years or more, the native people of america (aka: indians), have populated the americas, all the way from upper alaska, down through the western coast of california, south & central america. sorry charlie, as the tuna commercial goes, but the people were already there for a substancial time, waving 'hello!' to the europeans. what is strange, though, was that some of these native people had european defense tactics learned only by european fighters/warriors. probably a stray ship, marooned to shore, took these sailors/warriors in & they in kind taught the natives to fight agressively & with tactics same/similar to europeans. no, no, nannete! these fine & wonderful people were here, for thousands of years, had a rich & powerful history/culture long before spain, england, etc., mucked it up. it is believed that the original travelers came across the bering strights in alaska, from now siberia, in search of game, food and kept walking, settled wherever and then moved inland. this took a period of 2-3 thousands of years but what the heck! whose's in a rush?

Answer 9

Those, who were already, upon the land, at the time, when Columbus, and his crew arrived, my friend, were the INDIGENOUS NATIVES! They did NOT "DISCOVER" the land, that became known, - FIRSTLY, - as the "NEW WORLD" though, - these tribes had ALWAYS been there!

Although, Columbus IS credited, with the discovery, of the land, it seems, to ME, that, Florence-born explorer, AMERIGO VESPUCCI, (1454-1512), had something to do with it!

After all, "AMERICA" sounds a LOT like "AMERIGO", - does it, NOT?

Answer 10

There is evidence of a viking settlement in america, long before colombus turned up, who knows how many more people has a look round before that, anyway america had already been discovered by the people who lived there, so it was never actually "undiscovered" territory in the first place..