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Feb 27, 2024 · Widely known as the man who discovered America, Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492 in what has been described by many historians as the beginning of the Colonial Period. Though the explorer believed he’d reached the East Indies, he was actually in the modern-day Bahamas.
Apr 18, 2023 · Some scientists believed that the ‘first’ inhabitants of America entered through the piece of land between Russia and Alaska. Formerly, it was thought that the Clovis people were the first ones to cross into the continent. However, they are dated to some 13,000 years ago.
Oct 10, 2016 · America was really discovered a people known as Pre-Clovis who crossed a land bridge between Asian and America 15,000 years ago
- Kevin Enochs
- Siberian Hunters. North America was a forbidding land during the last Ice Age. Ice sheets towered three miles high over Canada, and vast icy tongues poked southward into the United States.
- French and Spanish Beachcombers. Around 23,000 abandoned Europe’s icy heartland for BC, bands of horse hunters more clement coasts in southern France and northern Spain.
- Japanese Fishermen. Few modern adventurers would paddle a small boat into the heavy currents and frigid waters of the Siberian coast, but Stone Age mariners from Asia may have done just that to reach the Americas.
- Irish Monks. One of the most popular books in all Europe during the Middle Ages was The Voyages of Brendan. First set down on paper by an Irish monk residing in Germany, the tale chronicled a mysterious journey taken by an Irish monk, St. Brendan, in the sixth century AD.
Apr 9, 2016 · Leif Erikson discovers North America, Christian Krogh (1893). In a room at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavik there is a thirteenth-century manuscript of sheep...
Jul 31, 2023 · The term “America” first took shape in 1507, when German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller drew a map of the newly recognized continent and labeled it “Americus” in Vespucci’s honor. This...
Oct 8, 2007 · Around the year 1000 A.D., the Viking explorer Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, sailed to a place he called "Vinland," in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Erikson and his...
