Who first discovered the new continent?

The first European explorer to reach America was Ralph Erickson, but Columbus played an important role in discovering the new continent.

Although Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach America (the first European explorer to reach America was Ye Xiaokai Eriksson), his voyage brought the first continuous contact between Europe and America, and opened a great era of European exploration and overseas territory colonization that lasted for centuries.

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In the Middle Ages, explorers, colonists and navigators were all born in Genoa (present-day northwest Italy). The background at that time was the rise of western imperialism, and European kingdoms began to compete economically, expanding their wealth by establishing trade routes and colonies. Columbus's adventure plan of sailing westward to east indies was supported by the Spanish royal family.

1492 On Columbus's first voyage, he landed in a place he called "San Salvador" in the Bahamas, instead of planned Japan. During the next three voyages, Columbus reached the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, Venezuela and Central America on the Caribbean coast, and declared them the territory of the Spanish Empire.

Although Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach America (the first European explorer to reach America was Ye Xiaokai Eriksson), his voyage brought the first continuous contact between Europe and America, and opened a great era of European exploration and overseas territory colonization that lasted for centuries. These have an immeasurable impact on the historical development of the modern western world.

Ye Xiaokai Eriksson may be the first European explorer who discovered North America in 1000.

The New World (another name for America) refers to America in general.

America is divided into North America and South America, which are located on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean and the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean respectively.

America is located in the western hemisphere and is divided into North America, Central America and South America in physical geography. It covers an area of 42.068 million square kilometers, accounting for 8.3% of the earth's surface area and 28.4% of the land area. There are about 950 million residents in the United States, accounting for 65438 of the total human population. It is the only continent in the western hemisphere.

North America and South America, bounded by the Panama Canal, are collectively called America, also known as the "New World".

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