who is the finder of america?

Answer 1

Everyone recognizes that many people were in America long before Columbus. The Asiatic peoples who became Native Americans were certainly the first, tens of thousands of years ago. Also Norse expeditions to North America, starting with Bjarni Herjolfsson in 986, are well established historically. Many other pre-Columbian discoveries are not well established. Claims have been made for St. Brendan, Basque fishermen, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Africans, and even Carthaginians. Some of these claims may be true; most are probably not.

For example, Gavin Menzies recently made a big splash by claiming in a bestselling book that America (and most of the rest of the world) was discovered in 1421 by the Chinese Admiral Zheng He. While it is true that Zheng He made a number of important voyages, none of them went beyond the Indian Ocean, as numerous contemporary Chinese accounts make clear. A number of notable scholars have quietly demonstrated that Menzies' evidence is tissue-thin and his claims unfounded.

Even though Columbus wasn't the first, his discovery (or re-discovery, if you prefer) is rightly regarded as the most historically important, and will continue to be -- even if other earlier claims are eventually proven true. That is because, unlike the others, Columbus inaugurated permanent large scale two-way commerce between the Old World and the New. Previous discoveries were so obscure that almost no one in either hemisphere was aware of the other hemisphere's existence prior to Columbus. But after Columbus, everyone knew.

The "Admiral of the Ocean Sea," unlike his predecessors, changed the world.

Answer 2

Leif Ericsson - "Eric the Red"

Don't think he bothered to stay

Link below is from an American library

Columbus never set foot in North America - look at the maps of his voyages in second link

Answer 3

if you subscribe to the egocentric philosophy that a populated continent supporting multiple civilizations can be found, then the answer is a toss-up between the Nordic and southern Euro explorers who claim it.

the real answer is unknown. America, like Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, was populated by pre-literate people who migrated to survive rather than "discovered" to plunder.

Answer 4

You mean ''Scouts'' every team has alot of them everywhere in the world that look for players that interest them Most Scouts are mostly in big cities

Answer 5

Offcource Columbass.

Answer 6

leif ericson is eric the reds son. eric the red never went to north america he went to greenland. leif ericson discovered vineland (present day new foundland) because there was lots of grapes and grape vines

Answer 7

Perhaps it was found by walking across the polar regions by tribes of Chinese/Eurasians. Probably long before anyone got there by ship.

Answer 8

COLUMBUS IS GIVEN CREDIT, HOWEVER, THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT LIEF THE LUCKY WAS IN CANADA CIRCA 1000 AD AND THAT THE CHINESE WERE ON THE WEST COAST IN 800 AD AND TALES OF IRISH MONKS IN 600 AD AND MANY OTHERS. PAY YOUR MONEY AND TAKE YOUR PICK.

Answer 9

the native americans who lived there before we did

Answer 10

Isn't it Columbus?