Who was the first European to come to America?

Answer 1

It is generally thought that Leif Ericson, the Viking was the first, just after the year 1000, almost 500 years before Columbus.

Answer 2

There are Viking graves located in the area of Red Bay Labrodor dated around the year 1000 A.D.; there is also a Basque Whaling station located at Red Bay which was built decades before Columbus.

Alledgedly Egyptians, Phoenicians, and two Irish Priests sailed to the Americas hundreds of years before Columbus.

Answer 3

There's also a story that an exiled Welsh Prince, called Madoc, made it to America in the 6 or 700s. For a while some believed that there were Native American languages derived from Welsh, unfortunately this is amost definitely totally bogus!

Answer 4

Actually the first Europeans to come to America where what we now call the Native Americans. Originally they had to cross an Ice Bridge from Europe/Asia to get here because at the time, they were hunters and gathers and their food was crossing the bridge to escape the freezing North. They had to travel almost all the way to modern day Florida in order to find warmer weather.

Answer 5

native americans or indian americans are the first human in two americas.
they were the first civilisations in america before all others



first were vinkings in north america. by the same way they were the first in canada,greenland and iceland . by the way they were the first who discovered indians of north america.
they called them with a germanic (scandinavics, indo european] names
who probably mean black human, or strange or brown people or under-civilized,because they were built some forteress against them because native americans stole arms and others vikings objects.


after 1482:

north america;
first : was french , with pierre cartier who discovered canada and after mississipi (louisiana)and usa .
second : was english.


south america:
first : spanish with christophe columbus [christophe colomb(o)]
second: portuguese

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Answer 6

Leif Ericson,otherwise known as Leif the Lucky. He was the
son of Eric the Red,who discovered Greenland.

Answer 7

Most likely, the Vikings were the first ones to hop on over. Read the Vinland Sagas for more info.