The common belief would be Christopher Columbus, but it is not well known that the Vikings had explored the northern coast of the north eastern North American continent, around Canada, Iceland, and the Northeastern United States.
Excluding the possibility that Lief Erikson sailed to the New World, the Spanish were the first major nation to establish colonies and begin the exploration of the Western Hemisphere. This began shortly after Christopher Columbus, in 1492, stumbled onto to the Western Hemisphere in his search for a faster water route to the Far East. The British, French and the Dutch soon followed.
There is remarkable evidence that Vikings ventured to Greenland and Nova Scotia in the years around 1100-1200 AS CE. or, even earlier. The Vikings or Norsemen, did not make any long term settlements in the new lands they discovered. After a span of another 500 or so years, an explorer under the flag of Spain, Christopher Columbus, made voyages to the Western Hemisphere or "New World" beginning in 1492. This was the beginning of major European nations making permanent settlements and colonies in the New World.
The Vikings were the first to reach the east coast of North America.
Spain was the first to explore
I believe it's amerigo Vespucci
A Spanish explorer ,ruler,and conquistador. first European to explore north amercias south west
The first colonists to arrive in South America were the Spanish conquistadors, in the 15th Century.
The first European to encounter the native tribes was Hernando De Soto. In 1540, he led a mostly fruitless expedition seeking treasure in a rain-soaked region of South Carolina and North Carolina.
8)Portugal conquered Brazil; Spain conquered Mexico, Central America and parts of South America.
South Carolina was the first of the Confederate States to secede from the United States.
No
Hernando de Soto Yay i answerd!
Antarctica. He failed trying to be the first to the south pole and crossing the continent.
portuguese
who was the first european to come in contact with a cocao bean
They sought the prize offered by South Australia to be the first to cross the continent from south to north.