Who Discovered The Americas First?

It is a well know fact that Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas.So who was first?I think that the Japanese were first,and I have evidence that supports this.(1)Using fishing canoes hey could have easily island hopped to the Americas.(2)The designs in South American pottery are similar to Japanese pottery.(3)Some of the South American tribes look similar to Japanese people.(4)There was a disease found in a mummified corpse that is only found in that of Japanese mummies.

Native Americans.

Apparently it was some European clan. They traveled over the ice which is now ocean into Canada. Learnt this from a documentary I watched about a year ago.

Native Americans.

hakanakumono

The people from sumeria

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Native Americans.

DmadFearmonger

They were here long before the Europeans.

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Native Americans.

ThePlothole

They were here long before the Europeans.

Apparently Europeans who moved over to the Americans. Some Russian clan or something actually BECAME the natives.

DmadFearmonger

I don't think there was a Russia some twelve thousand years ago.

Presumably, the ancestors of the American-Indians discovered it first. Christoper Columbus's ventures made the Americas known to Western Europe leading to European colonization, and thus was more historically significant than that of the Vikings.

The Native Americans.

In the Western World, it was the Vikings.

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Apparently Europeans who moved over to the Americans. Some Russian clan or something actually BECAME the natives.

ThePlothole

I don't think there was a Russia some twelve thousand years ago.

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Apparently Europeans who moved over to the Americans. Some Russian clan or something actually BECAME the natives.

DmadFearmonger

I don't think there was a Russia some twelve thousand years ago.

Okay. But still, based on the prevailing theory of early human migration Europeans do not play any role in the ancestry of Native Americans:

That's not really discovery. Columbus officially discovered the Americas, before that Europeans and Asians didn't know about them.F1_2004

Officially it was Amerigo Vespucci that discovered America. Hmm, wonder why it's called America.

Russians founded this nation as the land bridge connected Russia with Alaska.surrealnumber5

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]Russians founded this nation as the land bridge connected Russia with Alaska.ThePlothole

The early settlers (now known as Native Americans) discovered this land before anyone even fathomed it.

[QUOTE="ThePlothole"][QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]Russians founded this nation as the land bridge connected Russia with Alaska.surrealnumber5

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"][QUOTE="ThePlothole"] Except that the people we know as "Russians" today, whom do decent from Europeans, didn't arrive there until many thousands of years after the land bridge had disappeared.ThePlothole

[QUOTE="ThePlothole"][QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] except i never said Europeans i said Russians, there are Russians in Asia, they have been there since the time of the land bridge and continue to be there today, what is that thing they say about assumptions?surrealnumber5

I think the only discovery that amounts to anything is Columbus's, since he reported back and brought people who actually colonized the country rather than just nomads and smaller groups of settlers.JustPlainLucas

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"][QUOTE="ThePlothole"] If you mean to categorize every group of humans that has ever lived in the territory as a "Russian", fine. But technically Russians are a specific ethnic group. One which is completely unrelated to the people whom crossed the land bridge.Danm_999

and if you or he decided to look back at my first post i stated russian as it was where the land bridge connected asia and north america, never once did i say slavic or ever talk about a specific "race" or ethnicity. the people who went to north america were going there from russia and there for were russian till they became american. surrealnumber5

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]and if you or he decided to look back at my first post i stated russian as it was where the land bridge connected asia and north america, never once did i say slavic or ever talk about a specific "race" or ethnicity. the people who went to north america were going there from russia and there for were russian till they became american. ThePlothole

[QUOTE="ThePlothole"][QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]and if you or he decided to look back at my first post i stated russian as it was where the land bridge connected asia and north america, never once did i say slavic or ever talk about a specific "race" or ethnicity. the people who went to north america were going there from russia and there for were russian till they became american. surrealnumber5

I think the only discovery that amounts to anything is Columbus's, since he reported back and brought people who actually colonized the country rather than just nomads and smaller groups of settlers.JustPlainLucas

The Vikings of Norway knew of "Vinland", as they called it, long before and had reports of it. Leif Ericsson was his name.

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"][QUOTE="ThePlothole"] The people who went to North America were going there from Asia. They were Asians. Danm_999

[QUOTE="JustPlainLucas"]I think the only discovery that amounts to anything is Columbus's, since he reported back and brought people who actually colonized the country rather than just nomads and smaller groups of settlers.trasherhead

The Vikings of Norway knew of "Vinland", as they called it, long before and had reports of it. Leif Ericsson was his name.

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[QUOTE="JustPlainLucas"]I think the only discovery that amounts to anything is Columbus's, since he reported back and brought people who actually colonized the country rather than just nomads and smaller groups of settlers.Mr_Alexander

The Vikings of Norway knew of "Vinland", as they called it, long before and had reports of it. Leif Ericsson was his name.

I think the only discovery that amounts to anything is Columbus's, since he reported back and brought people who actually colonized the country rather than just nomads and smaller groups of settlers.JustPlainLucas

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The Vikings of Norway knew of "Vinland", as they called it, long before and had reports of it. Leif Ericsson was his name.

trasherhead

yeah your going to have to show a link on that one.. The main reason that I have read about was the overpopulation of the lands that led to them branching out to places like Great Britain and England as colonies.. These were not peaceful, these were conquests.

[QUOTE="trasherhead"][QUOTE="Mr_Alexander"] Don't confuse "Norse" with "Norway", Leif was Icelandic :)sSubZerOo

yeah your going to have to show a link on that one.. The main reason that I have read about was the overpopulation of the lands that led to them branching out to places like Great Britain and England as colonies.. These were not peaceful, these were conquests.

The Ice Age mongoloids that crossed the Bering Strait land bridge. Then the Chinese. Then the Scandanavians/Icelanders. Then Christopher Columbus.

The americas were never "discovered." There were always people living here.