Who discovered the America?

Answer 1

I don't think Christopher Columbus was the first to discover the Americas somebody did it before him but because he was sent by the king and queen he was recognized for doing it first.

It is possible that long before Christopher Columbus Lief Erickson, a Viking, may have sailed to the Americas.

For practical intent and purpose Christopher Columbus was responsible for the discovery of the Americas as the result of exploration commissioned by the Queen of Spain. "Discovered" means to learn or find something for the first time. To say that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas is to say that there was no one, no people there before him. Yet this is untrue and offensive to those Natives who "don't count" as humans to be able to discover the Americas. More to the point, there have been countless journeys to the Americas from various places on the globe, way before Columbus (including most well known voyages of the Afro-Phoenicians to the eastern coast of Mexico in ~750 B.C.E).

To say the Americas were discovered anytime C.E. (A.D.) is factually incorrect. The first travelers to the Americas can be found anywhere from 70,000-12,000 B.C.E. from Siberia to Alaska, due to archeological evidence that shows the survivors populated the Americas.

Answer 2

People claim that Christopher Columbus or the Vikings discovered the Americas. But actually, the people from Asia had travelled all the way across the Pacific Ocean and landed in the Americas. When they reached the Americas they started living there and were known as the Native Americans. So basically speaking, the Native Americans had discovered the Americas.

Christopher Columbus was actually travelling to India and by mistake, he landed in Haiti in Mexico. When he saw all these people running around, he called them Indians.

( Answer told by a history teacher )

In medieval Welsh poems and stories, it says that Prince Madoc sailed over to America in 1170. Madoc and his men stayed in America with the Indians, and that's how the Mandan people were born. They were half Welsh, half Indian.