The term "US of America" is a political one and refers to the country whilst "America" is geographical. It is certain that the Vikings reached North America before Columbus as Viking artifacts have been found. Properly speaking, those who 'discovered' the Americas were the people who migrated across the Bering Strait during the last Ice Age.
Probably the Siberians that crossed into what is now Alaska. Some stuck around and are generally called Eskimos. Others migrated south and became our American Indians. Others migrated down into what is now Mexico, Central America, and South America, becoming Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas, among many other tribes.
Richard Hakluyt it was John Cabot
The Tudor explorers discovered most of America!
alot of vikings discovered the new world but never noticed that they discovered it. God allowed America to remain hidden until columbus discovered it.And if America was discovered earlier the history would be kinda different. And the america was discovered in 1492 the discovery of the new world began. :0
It was in 1492, and we now remember it with Columbus Day. [=
America was discovered by many different explorers, most of them of Western European ethnicity.
While the "Native Americans," the Norse, the Chinese and perhaps others discovered America earlier, the discovery by Columbus in 1492 is considered the "official" date of discovery becasue that is the discovery from which the modern world descends.
No one, America was not discovered back then it wasn't till July 4, 1776 America became a country.
Because Columbus discovered America
yes there are many dinosaurs discovered in America like Tyrannosaurus Rex
America is named after him. He discovered longitude and latitude. Made maps.
Before it was discovered, the US, and America as a whole, had no collective name - because it was not known to the Europeans. The natives did not bother with a name for America because they were more concerned with their territory and the lands claimed by neighboring peoples than with mapping the continent.
The continent has never been called 'the US.' The continent is North America. North America has three countries, Canada, Mexico and the United States of America.
Richard Hakluyt it was John Cabot
Because the vikings didn't settle in America.
Amerigo Vespucci discovered that Asia was not a part of America. America was named after him.
Christoper columbus was an explorer he found america
America was "discovered" not invented.