who actually discovered America apart from natives?...?

Question

i know for sure it wasnt Columbus, he got lost some where in the gulf

Answer 1

Probably the Ming Dynasty eunuch admiral, Zheng He, who led a fleet of Chinese junks (bamboo battened lateen rigged ships) in the 1660's.
Otherwise, Ponce deLeon who landed in Florida from the Caribbean.

Answer 2

First, let's define "discovery." Discovery should mean the very first humans who ever saw a place and/or stepped foot onto it. I've always felt that it was utterly ridiculous that a place wasn't "discovered" until a European had seen or been to it. I think it has to be obvious that (North) America was discovered by those ancient siberians who first had the cause or reason to venture across the land bridge joining Asia to Alaska some 10+ thousand years ago. While some scientist studying the matter still hotly debate just exactly when this first crossing of the Bering land-bridge occurred, they all agree that it was long, long before the first European ever even realized the North American continent even existed at all.

Answer 3

Depends which part of America. Recent findings suggest a people closely related to the Anu of northern Japan arrived first, then it was the people we regard as native americans today, they probably crossed from Siberia during the last ice age.

In historical times Columbus has been proved to have arrived there, but its widely accepted that vikings may have got there first....there are even rumours of Celts/welsh and Phoenicians before them!

Answer 4

The indigenous peoples of the U.S. mainland, including Alaska, migrated from Asia. They began arriving at least 12,000 and as many as 40,000 years ago.[21] Several indigenous communities in the pre-Columbian era developed advanced agriculture, grand architecture, and state-level societies. European explorer Christopher Columbus arrived at Puerto Rico on November 19, 1493, making first contact with the Native Americans. In the years that followed, the majority of the Native American population was killed by epidemics of Eurasian diseases.[22

Answer 5

Archaeologists have indications that some Chinese settled in southern Mexico/ central America about 3,500 years ago- readable Chinese script on pottery figures found Yucatan area in 1950s was read by Chinese scholar 2002- indicated royal household of a defeated dynasty warring states period had fled by boat and settled area- architecture of area had seemed to have made a jump in civilization about that time, this seems to answer the big how/why questions.. 30,000 years back the Siberian straits were a land bridge that Mongolian people crossed- Mongolians were native American ancestors is established concept in anthropology, DNA tests seem to support 3 at least migration periods. Some indications of Celtic contact claimed maybe 5,000 years back- the Clovis point spear head seems same as early finds in Spain, Basque region. Peru coast grave finds suggest Polynesian/Pacific island people may have settled there 3000--> 5000 years back.

Answer 6

The first known inhabitants of the area now known as the United States are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning approximately 20,000 years ago by crossing the Bering land bridge into Alaska. The first solid evidence of these cultures settling in what would become the US begins as early as 15,000 years ago with the Sandia and Clovis tribes.

Relatively little is known of these early settlers compared to the Europeans who colonized the area after the first voyage of navigator Christopher Columbus in 1492 for Spain. Columbus' men were also the first documented Old Worlders to land in the territory of the United States when they arrived in Puerto Rico during their second voyage in 1493. The first European known to set foot in the continental U.S. was Juan Ponce de León, who arrived in Florida in 1513, though there is some evidence suggesting that he may have been preceded by John Cabot in 1497.Archaeological as well as geological evidence suggests that the present-day United States was originally populated by people migrating from Asia via the Bering land bridge starting some 20,000 years ago.[1] These people became the indigenous people who inhabited the Americas prior to the arrival of European explorers in the 1400s and who are now called Native Americans.

Many cultures thrived in the Americas before Europeans came, including the Puebloans (Aztec) in the southwest and the Adena Culture in the east. Several such societies and communities, over time, intensified this practice of established settlements, and grew to support sizeable and concentrated populations. Agriculture was independently developed in what is now the eastern United States as early as 2500 BC, based on the domestication of indigenous sunflower, squash and goosefoot.[2] Eventually, Mexican maize and legumes were adapted to the shorter summers of eastern North America and replaced the indigenous crops.

The first European contact with the Americas was with the Vikings in the year 1000. Leif Erikson established a short-lived settlement called Vinland in present day Newfoundland. It would be another 500 years before European contact would be made again.

Several medieval Arabic sources also suggest that Muslim explorers from Islamic Spain and Northwest Africa may have travelled in expeditions across the Atlantic to the Americas between the 9th and 14th centuries

Answer 7

Egyptians sailed there in reed made ships helped by the gulf stream

this could explain prymids and mummifying ect ect

africans could also have got there prior to slavery

as there are anciant rock carvings of africans faces in the amazon jungle

Answer 8

The vikings established settlements there many years before Columbus sailed

Answer 9

There were no natives. Credit goes to Asians, who didn't write about it, the Vikings, who wrote just a little about it, and Columbus, who wrote a lot about it.

Moral of the story --- if you do something, write a lot about it.

Answer 10

viking remains have been found predating christopher colombus by hundreds of years. but i would say the first people to discover america where the asian nomads that where the ancestors of today's american natives.