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Who Really Discovered America?
That sort of depends on what you mean by discover. The Indians, of course, were already here and did not need to discover it. They were in a position to be discovered by Europeans. The first Europeans to reach the Western Hemisphere were the Vikings who settled in Newfoundland around 1000 A.D. They seemingly did not realise just what it was that they had found though, a whole new continent, and did not have the resources to maintain their colony. They remembered it in their oral sagas and, as I understand it, Columbus had some knowledge of those stories and recognised their significance. He was the only one to do so though. Thus the Vikings "discovery" was almost forgotten by them and was unknown to the rest of Europe. Columbus was the first one who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean with the deliberate intent of getting to a specific place. He however, thought he had reached Asia and died still believing that. Thus he found the place and was able to tell the rest of Europe about it and tell them how to get here, but he never knew that he had actually found a place that was completely unknown to Europe before he got there. In the early 1500's European scholars gradually began to understand that these new lands were not Asia. Amerigo Vespucci was the first to use the term "New World" to describe South America. There is dispute about whether his accounts of his alledged explorations are true or not but they were published and popularised and his name came to be used for the New World although it would be inaccurate to ascribe solely to him the discovery of the fact that this is what these new lands were.