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What groups of Europeans reached North America about 500 years before Columbus?
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The Vikings were the first Europeans who reached North America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus and their leader was Leif Erikson
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∙ 15y agoThe Vikings were the first Europeans who reached North America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus and their leader was Leif Erikson
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What group of europeans reached North American before Columbus?
vikings
What group of europeans explored American about AD 1000?
The Vikings were the first Europeans who reached North America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus and their leader was Leif Erikson
Who were the first europeans to reach America?
vikingsRelics found recently indicate that the Nordic explorers reached the Americas long before Columbus
When did the nordic explorers reach America?
They reached North America 500 years before Columbus reached the Bahamas.
Who lived in America before the arrival of Columbus and the Europeans?
Native Americans
Who reached America 500 years before Columbus?
lief ericsson
True or false no europeans had ever set foot on the American continents prior to Columbus's arrival in 1492?
False. Vikings, specifically Leif Erikson and his crew, are believed to have reached America around the year 1000 AD, establishing a settlement in present-day Newfoundland, Canada. This predated Columbus's arrival in 1492 by approximately 500 years.
Which group of people reached North America about 500 years before Columbus?
Vicking
Before Columbus arrived the only Europeans to have temporarily visited North America were?
the Norse
What year did the Europeans?
If you are asking about North America there is evidence that Vikings arrived 500 years before Columbus and had colonies. Columbus was in 1492 in the Bahamas and never landed in North America.
What year did the europeans come?
If you are asking about North America there is evidence that Vikings arrived 500 years before Columbus and had colonies. Columbus was in 1492 in the Bahamas and never landed in North America.
Before Columbus arrived the only europeans to have temporarily visted north America were?
The Vikings under Leif Erickson.
