I think Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn share that honor.
"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving is considered to be America's first literary folktale. It was first published in 1819 and is a story about a man who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to find his village drastically changed.
An unknown Viking.
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The first folktale was used April 17th 6987 BC. The story, the teller, the location, the plot, the moral and the characters have all been lost to history. All we know is the date.
Aristotle became the first literary critic.
I think it was the first place claimed for and controlled by a distant government. But I'm not sure. Hope this helps.
Ireland....... from the Irish folktale about Stingy Jack
The first people in the Americas were bands of hunter-gatherers.
The first European contact with native populations in the Americas is typically considered to have occurred in 1492 when Christopher Columbus reached the Caribbean islands.
The Olmec of southern Mexico built Latin Americas first civilization.
Spain was the first country to import enslaved Africans to the Americas :)
John Cabot was the first English explorer to sail to the Americas.
Americas first settlers were native Americans.