Who was the discoverer of the American continent?

The discoverers of the American continent were Indians.

The Americas are not a new world for the Native American Indians. They arrived in the Americas as early as 18,000 years ago and crossed the Bering River from Asia about 18,000 years ago. The strait reaches America, or it passes through the ice-covered strait land bridge.

Columbus's arrival in the Americas only had a great impact on the Western world. Indians and Westerners are both human beings, so it was the Indians who were the first to discover the New World, but their discoveries had little impact. Whether it was Columbus or other Westerners who landed on the American continent, they were not "first discovered". There were already tens of millions of residents here before they came.

The history of the discovery of the American continent:

In the 1960s, archaeologists discovered the remains of Indian settlements in Newfoundland and New England, Canada. In the heroic legend of the Vikings, it is recorded that a sailor named Erikson sailed from Greenland to the east coast of North America around 1000 AD.

About the 11th century, some ordinary Nordic merchants and farmers landed in northern Newfoundland in a round single-masted ship and established a colony there. However, due to the local Indians Due to the hostility and the threat from the northern seawater, they were forced to give up and return home after only two or three years.

The Americas have approximately 900 million inhabitants, accounting for 13.5% of the total human population. For the Indo-European civilization, America was not known at first. Later, the navigator Columbus arrived in 1492 and mistakenly thought it was India, so that the local people are called Indians to this day.

It was later named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci and is still in use today. First, Spain and Portugal immigrated to the Americas, and later the Netherlands, Britain, and France also immigrated there. In 1776, the United States, the first Western colonial independent country, was born in the Americas.