Who discovered America?

[Casey]

This was asked in my AP US History class, who discovered America? Alot of people said Columbus. Personally I think no one did because there were already people living here in the first place.

[Venom]

The Indoasiatic people did.

[Shlup]

http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/grizzly/photo/gallery/bear9_lg.jpg

[Rye]

Well, who from EUROPE discovered America would be Colombus. Though, it wasn't America yet. It was just a continent. :fpexdee:

[Hawkeye]

Some guy in 900AD. I think the last name reminded me of a leaf

[Meat Puppet]

PiP thinks his breed did imho wtf btw.

[Venom]

http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/grizzly/photo/gallery/bear9_lg.jpg

Its H4X johnnyolsenskill! :D

[XxSephirothxX]

Some guy in 900AD. I think the last name reminded me of a leaf

You're thinking of Leif Ericson. But I'd say the guys who crossed the land bridge a few thousand years ago take that prize.

[Rye]

You're thinking of Leif Ericson. But I'd say the guys who crossed the land bridge a few thousand years ago take that prize.

Leif Ericson? Hay, wasn't he mentioned in Spongebob? He got his own day. Haha, Spongebob fandom powers, go! :heart:

http://lancemannion.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/spongebob.jpg

[Shoden]

Well the story goes like this, Me, Meat Puppet, Alive-man and some Spannish guy who sold cheap alcohol got drunk one day and decided to sail a boat, we were so pissed that we didn't know where we were going, we eventually ran into America, we stole the pipes from the natives and named the place America, we woke up next day with bad hangovers and surrounded by Hippos with Katanas or Natives with spears.


Columbus discovered America but there were the Red Indians who were there first.

[Hawkeye]

You're thinking of Leif Ericson. But I'd say the guys who crossed the land bridge a few thousand years ago take that prize.
That's just all theory :shifty:

[Vaprice]

asians

[boris no no]

during the last ice age people from the area that is now asia and mongolia (which is why native americans look more asian then european) walked across an "ice bridge"...well not an ice bridge, but during the warming some of the ice melted creating a gap that the walked through. but it was across the...top bit xD god my geography. near alaska?
did you know that horses were origionally from america, travled over to europe, died out in america and came back once collumbas got there ^^
omg i'm learning *dies*

[Venom]

asians

Indoasiactic people to be correct.

[radyk05]

i did.

[Shlup]

You people are so stupid.

God's true chosen children traveled over here on the land bridge. Some of them have red skin because they were cursed by God after murdering their brethren. Get it right.

[black orb]

>>> Why do you call him Columbus :confused:
The guy`s name was Cristóbal Colón..

[Psychotic]

Fred Flintstone. Don't you people watch the History Channel?!

[Yamaneko]

Columbus did considering it was never called "America" until his navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, thoroughly documented the "new" continent for the Europeans and it was thereafter called "America". The natives knew it as something else, hundreds of other names, perhaps.

[rubah]

>>> Why do you call him Columbus :confused:
The guy`s name was Cristóbal Colón..
Because we don't have keyboard with fancy accents! So we use silly anglicanized names.

[DMKA]

Jesus.

[Dignified Pauper]

You people are so stupid.

God's true chosen children traveled over here on the land bridge. Some of them have red skin because they were cursed by God after murdering their brethren. Get it right.


I always thought Odin sent one of his Valkyries to lead the Norse across the Atlantic to the Holy Land.

[eestlinc]

Saint Brendan

[Yuffie514]

asians

could be true. once i saw like a three-part series about something. but it concluded that Columbus may not have discovered America, but the Chinese. there is not enough evidence and i don't remember the name of the show.

it would be good btw. a gain for one, and a [well-deserved] humiliation for the other.

EDIT: ah yes, this link and others can be found. it's not evidence yet, but it suggests that i ain't making up bull.

http://www5.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/01/13/1421/

[Yamaneko]

Jesus.
Don't Mormons believe that Jesus preached to the natives while he was dead for those three days?

[Dignified Pauper]

http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/grizzly/photo/gallery/bear9_lg.jpg

So, Schlup, you're saying that America was originally inhabited by Furry Tractors?

[Dr. Casey]

Saint Brendan

Kickass, I'm a Saint.

[theundeadhero]

Don't Mormons believe that Jesus preached to the natives while he was dead for those three days?After asking a Morman, yes.

[DMKA]

After asking a Morman, yes.
Precisely.

[Big D]

It's been confirmed that Vikings landed in North America roughly a thousand years ago, but the original disoverers would be those who gave rise to the Native Americans.
Christopher Columbus just gets mentioned so often because his was the first well-documented European expedition to the continent.

[Project G]

You're all wrong, it was some guy!

[Cuchulainn]

There are historical murmours that caucasians were there before the native americans. Bones dug up date back further than any 'polynesian' bones but has been hushed up. Who truely knows? Leaf landed on it, thought nothing of it & sailed off again. Silly Vikings.

[Shoden]

They want us to Believe Columbus did but it was porbably the first human being to set foot there who has the rights to it's discovery.

[eestlinc]

Christopher Columbus just gets mentioned so often because his was the first well-documented European expedition to the continent.
depends on what you mean by well-documented.

http://www.castletown.com/brendan.htm

[Cuchulainn]

Never underestimate the Irish. I've heard of this too but it is too vague to be cemented in history.

[Zeromus_X]

does it really matter? its still here, so thats all we need to worry about:p

[DMKA]

does it really matter?
No, but as long as there are people who are bored with no life (ie, myself) things like this will be discussed to some degree.

[Traitorfish]

It's interesting to note that some archaelogists believe the first Europeans in North America where not in fact Vikings, but were stone-age peoples who migrated from what is now France (although they were not celtic, frankish, etc), during the Ice Age. The theory is based on the similarity between certain artifacts in both locations, specifically the variety of spear heads known as 'Clovis' spear heads, as well as some genetic evdience.
The genetic evidence is a discovery that certain parts of the DNA from some native North Americans has unusual similarities with European DNA. The actual frequency of this occurence depends on tribe an occurance, but one tribe's DNA which was used frequently showed almost 1/4 people having the afformentioned DNA patterns.

[Itsunari 2000]

... Quantities of evidence unearthed recently suggest it was a Chinaman who discovered the Americas, at least a century before Columbus recorded discovery.

In the year 1421, the Ming Emperor, Zhu Di, sent out the largest expeditionary fleet the world had ever seen led by his most trusted Admiral, Zheng He, a massive undertaking which would cover thousands of miles and take three years to complete. Among the nations discovered and apparently colonized by the Chinese, including Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and South America, one of the more ambitious admirals successfully landed on the West coast of North America.

[Big D]

Well... there definitely wasn't any Chinese presence in New Zealand until the 1800s... The first Polynesian settlers got here roughly 1100 years ago; there's some faint evidence of earlier inhabitation, but nothing suggests that China ever colonised.

[Shlup]

So, Schlup, you're saying that America was originally inhabited by Furry Tractors?
Your mom's a furry tractor.

[Dignified Pauper]

Your mom's a furry tractor.

I'm not a were-bear.

[Itsunari 2000]

I'm not a were-bear.


Sorry to ruin what all you giggling, pre-pubescent juveniles on this forum call " fun " but cut out the crap. NOW.

[frr_vegeta]

......

The first population to tread on the Americas was indeed those who crossed on the land bridge....however it wasn't just a few thousand years ago. It is generally accepted that the land bridge formed from the ice age existed from around 40,000 BC to around 10,000 BC. And while it was probably possible for travellers to migrate across the bridge 40,000 years ago, carbon dating and fossil records indicate that settlement of the Americas was not until after 20,000 BC. Then of course came the Vikings, famed Erick the Red, as well as Leif Erickson (Sense a relation?) set up fishing villages around the area of New Foundland, also 'discovering' Iceland and Greenland (And naming the icy one Greenland and the greener one Iceland in attempts to keep the good island for themselves.)

And finally, Columbus, who as my old history professor summed up, was the "Last person to discover America" Even though when he died he still didn't realize it. What a pitiful lad.

As far as we can tell, before 40,000 BC, the Americas were inhabited by dragons and whales which walked on land.

[Primus Inter Pares]

PiP thinks his breed did imho wtf btw.
You know it's true, and we apologise, greatly :(

[Levian]

The Why-kings.

[Resha]

Someone came up with the IT'S THE CHINESE conspiracy. Maybe?

[Loony BoB]

http://gkaplan.iespana.es/gkaplan/enlaces/generos/anime/asterix/america.gif

[Resha]

:love: Asterix. My hero.

[theundeadhero]

I'm fairly sure that man in Lonny BoB's picture is Dr Robotnik from the Sonic games. He discovered America?!

[War Angel]

I heard they've found large, yellowish fossilised M's all over the northern continent. Strange....

[Lord Xehanort]

The guys who walked across the land bridge...

Then the Vikings.

Then Cristobal Colon... AKA Christopher Colombus.

[Cuchulainn]

It was the IRISH...damn you. We discovered America, Leprechaun's, Pixies & alcohol abuse.

All hail Brendan, sailed to America, got drunk & forgot to tell anyone.

[Classic Axe]

The Vikings discovered it

duh

They also invented Rock music hellyeah!

[Shaun]

I heard they've found large, yellowish fossilised M's all over the northern continent. Strange....

FTW? =P Got a link to that?

[Primus Inter Pares]

http://gkaplan.iespana.es/gkaplan/enlaces/generos/anime/asterix/america.gif
Don't give people another reason to dislike the french...