The First Americans
In 1492 Christopher Columbus and what remained of his crew arrived in Spain with the news that he
had reached land on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
It was not long before Europeans realized that
Columbus had, in fact, discovered...
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The First Americans
In 1492 Christopher Columbus and what remained of his crew arrived in Spain with the news that he
had reached land on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
It was not long before Europeans realized that
Columbus had, in fact, discovered a new land previously unknown to the Christian people of Europe.
Of course, Columbus had not really “discovered” America.
About 30,000 years before Columbus
arrived in the New World, migratory tribes from Asia had crossed from Siberia to Alaska, and, over a
period of thousands of years, populated all of North and South America.
There is speculation – but no
conclusive evidence – that seafaring adventurers from Africa, Europe or Asia reached America prior to
the Christian era.
However, it is certain that Viking mariners landed on the shores of what is now
Greenland, Canada and the United States sometime around 1000 A.
D.
Conflicts with the native tribes
caused the Vikings to abandon their settlements, and their discovery of Amer
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