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The inhabitants f an area are not "discovered" they have a first contact with explorers. In the case of the Americas, initial contact with native populations was with Vikings in about 1000 CE, Basque fisheren in the 12 to 13 hundreds or Columbus at the end of the 14 hundreds. Some anecdotal evidence exists that Phoenicians may have reached North America before the Vikings and thet Chinese explorers may have visited the west coat before Columbus visited the east coast..

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