Do you know what the United States was like in the past?

The United States was established on July 4, 1776, which is the day of the United States’ Independence Day. Until now, it has only a history of more than 200 years. Before the Italian navigator Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492, the Americas were now Indian territory. It is said that the first people to arrive in North America may have been Asians who crossed the Bering Strait from the Asian continent and settled in the Americas. However, the first settlers in America were Indians, the native people of the Americas.

Because the original goal of Columbus's voyage was to reach India in Asia, he actually reached the Americas. Columbus mistakenly thought he had arrived in India. They named the indigenous people there "Indians" based on their skin color and language. In fact, it was not Columbus who first discovered North America, but the Vikings from Northern Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries. The Vikings once landed in Greenland and settled there, but were soon driven away by the Indians there. By this time, this new world had been forgotten. Although the Italian navigator Columbus discovered America at the end of the 15th century, he did not colonize it.

In short, before Columbus discovered America, North America was isolated from the world. Indian tribes, large and small, spread across the dense forests and coasts of North America, and they had not yet formed a nation. Before the founding of the United States, there were no written records in North America, so we know very little about some of its history. It was not until Columbus discovered America that European colonists began to pay attention to this strange new continent.

The first immigrants to North America were the British. In 1607 AD, a team of about 100 immigrants landed on the beach of Sabic, Virginia, and established Jamestown. By 1733, the number of British colonies in North America had grown to 13. The population grew from 2,000 in 1625 to 2.4 million in 1775 when the American Revolutionary War broke out. Among them were 600,000 black slaves and 1.8 million whites. Therefore, Americans speak English for this reason.

Currently, there are approximately 2-10 million Indians living in the United States. Today, the real masters of the United States are not European immigrants, but Indians. Without Columbus's voyages and European immigration to the Americas, North America might still have been in a primitive tribal state.