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"Chris columbus" never even knew about North America, or so says research done during America's Bicentennial. Letters from Columbus' land were studied, and it was determined that he was probably named 'Cristobal Colon' or Cristofero Columbo' (the Columbo name was well-known and wealthy and he might have been a child of an unmarried man, which wouldn't have been popular to the church at the time).
Columbus took four voyages. On his fourth voyage he stepped on Venezuela, which is SOUTH America. He never stepped on North America.
Someone once wrote to him saying, "There are rumors that there is a big island north of where you are." and he replied, "If there were, I certainly would know about it!" So, he said out of his own mouth that he didn't know about America.
He actually 'discovered' a tiny little island that was 13 miles North-to-South and 9 Miles East-to-West although nobody can exactly pin down what island it was.
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Of course the first people to 'discover' North America were those who traveled across the land bridge back about 18,000 years ago.
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But, if you're talking about the first European... Lief Erikson in the year 1000.
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However, if you're meaning 'America'...
"One of Bristol's major merchants, a local politician and aristocrat, was directly involved in this saga for twenty years." His name was Richard ap Meurig (of ap Merick, Ameryk, Amerike), and probably discovered America between 1480 and 1500. His name was close to 'America' and some say that is who named it.
Others say, "John Cabot (c 1450 - c 1498), an Italian-born British navigator who is said to have reached America in 1497."
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