In that the Vikings were met (and wiped out) by people, the 'Natives" who came from Asia, the Vikings were just the latest in a string of visitors starting in 12,000 BCE or so. There are also reports of Chinese voyages to the new world and Phoenician travelers.
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There are Irish legends of earlier travelers from Europe to America, but the earliest documented travel is of the Vikings. There is also some evidence that the Chinese may have visited what is now California many hundreds of years ago, but this is still disputed.
Of course, the FIRST humans to reach America were the early nomads who came from Asia about 50K years ago.
Yes, they were able to map 'Vinland' 500 years beforeColumbus' visit to 'The New World'.
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The vikings founds America before the famous Christopher Columbus but the did not stay because the conditions were not suitable
Yes. They did. They discovered America 500 years before colombus. Leif Erickson was who discovered it . Also Leif dicovered by himself.
The Vikings settled on the northern tip of the Isle of Newfoundland in the year 1000 AD. That was almost 500 years before Columbus. The natives disovered the new world first
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around 1000 A.D.
They were the first Europeans to discover America.
It verified that the Vikings were the first Europeans to discover America.
North America. He led a group of Vikings, who were the first Europeans to land in North America.
The Vikings first discovered Newfoundland, Canada when they came to America. The Scandinavian Vikings, in search of fertile land, voyaged far and wide, temporarily settling in Iceland, Greenland, and the Canadian seacoast of Labrador and Newfoundland.
Yes and no. People believe that Chinese discovered America in 1421 but some people say they might of got there in 1200's And the Vikings discovered America in 1000 AD , But they only went to America to trade they didn't discover it because the vikings already had proof that there was land there. So the Chinese discovered it and they didn't know they would actually find it
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They were the first Europeans to discover America.
Vikings
The Vikings.
They were the first Europeans to discover North America.
It verified that the Vikings were the first Europeans to discover America.
they were sort of like Native Americans. I guess they came together
North America. He led a group of Vikings, who were the first Europeans to land in North America.
The Vikings first discovered Newfoundland, Canada when they came to America. The Scandinavian Vikings, in search of fertile land, voyaged far and wide, temporarily settling in Iceland, Greenland, and the Canadian seacoast of Labrador and Newfoundland.
It is said that Vikings discovered the North Americas but they never really claimed it as anything.
Yes and no. People believe that Chinese discovered America in 1421 but some people say they might of got there in 1200's And the Vikings discovered America in 1000 AD , But they only went to America to trade they didn't discover it because the vikings already had proof that there was land there. So the Chinese discovered it and they didn't know they would actually find it
he was properly the first European to land on north America.