Who? Christopher Columbus? He was not the first to dicover America. Much earlier examples include the Native Americans and Leif Erikson, a viking who discovered America long before Colombus. Christopher Columbus just brought Europeans to America. He 'rediscovered' America, per se. He deserves credit for bring colonists to America, not discovering it.
Christoper Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci was a ignorant sailor and storyteller. he would sit in a tavern and tell his false stories of traveling to America. he was not only given credit, a German map maker named America after him! boy, what a lie! - AnSwEr
He is famous for discovering the New World , America .
Because, Lord Baltimore got the land from King Charles and so he got to do what ever he wanted to do with the land so that is why he should get the credit for discovering Mary land.
discovering America was his greatest.
they didn't document it
Christoper Columbus
christopher Columbus and leif ericson
Amerigo Vespucci is given the credit for discovering America.
Because he did discover America,not Columbus.
For some he is credited for discovering America but then it was originally the natives
because he is a founding father of America.
St Brendan from Ireland of course.
J. J. Thompson was given credit for discovering the first electron.
Karl Wilhem is given credit for discovering simple machines
Gilbert N. Lewis was given the credit for discovering how a covalent bond works.
Darwin.