Who first discovered America?

For Native American Indians, America is not a new continent. They reached the American continent as early as 40,000 years ago, crossed the Bering Strait from Asia to America about 40,000 years ago, or crossed the frozen strait continental bridge.

Columbus's arrival in America only had a great influence on the western world. Indians and westerners are both human beings, so it was Indians who first discovered the new continent, but their discovery had little impact.

Whether Columbus or other westerners landed on the American continent, it was not the "first discovery". Before they came, there were not only tens of millions of residents here, but also Asians had already landed in America before them, but they Asians did not come to expand their sphere of influence and plunder colonies. But to find a place to live or to avoid disasters, to carry out cultural exchanges or commercial trade, which is a peaceful migration or exploration, which is in sharp contrast with Columbus and later western colonists.

In the 1960s, archaeologists discovered the remains of their settlements in Newfoundland and New England, Canada. In Viking the legend of heroes, it is recorded that a sailor named Eriksson sailed from Greenland to the east coast of North America around AD 1000. About 1 1 century, some ordinary Nordic businessmen and farmers landed in a place in northern Newfoundland on a round sloop and established a colony there. However, due to the hostility of local Indians and the threat of the North Sea, they were forced to give up returning to China after two or three years.

There are about 900 million residents in the United States, accounting for 13.5% of the total population. For the Indo-European civilization, America was unknown at first, but it was later arrived by the navigator Columbus in 1492, and was mistaken for India, so that today the locals are called Indians. It was named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Wesp, and it has been used ever since.

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