Who discovered the American continent?

The American continent was discovered by Columbus. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator, one of the main figures in the Age of Discovery, and a pioneer of geographical discovery. Born in the medieval Republic of Genoa. Although Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas, his voyages brought about the first sustained European contact with the Americas and ushered in an era of European exploration and colonization of overseas territories that would last for centuries. It has an immeasurable influence on the historical development of modern Western countries.

Columbus's first voyage expedition and voyage to America were of great significance in the history of geographical development. Columbus and his party arrived at Cuba, Haiti and several small islands in the Indian Archipelago in the middle of the eastern part of America, thus opening the curtain on the discovery of the New World.

Columbus and his party opened up a new route from Europe across the Atlantic to the Americas and back safely, thus closely linking the Americas and Europe, and thus the New World and the Old World. Columbus made more detailed records and descriptions of what he thought was the "West Indian region", which gave people in the Old World a preliminary understanding of this place.

Columbus's first crossing of the Americas also plays an important role in the history of colonialism. In the past 500 years in Europe, and since ancient times in the world, people at a higher level of civilization in the Old World established an immigration settlement in the New World for the first time - the colonial stronghold Navidad (Christmas City). They began to have many interactions with people in a primitive social state in the New World. close contact.