Who Discovered America? Columbus Or Amerigo Vespucci?

Well Christopher Columbus discovered America but mistook it for India and started calling the people there Indians. Then, Vespucci followed his path and then he came back saying it was not India and he got honoured by naming the continent.

Christopher Columbus found America. I learned this in class

They both did but Columbus claimed it for Spain.
Vespucci was the first though, that's why we call it AMERICA and SOUTH AMERICA has COLUMBIA, and we have the District of Columbia. Google Columbus and see where he actually landed.

There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the ancient Chinese discovered The Americas about a century before Columbus. Massive superfleets of as many as 10000 ships set off and circumnavigated the globe. Have you ever thought that many of the indigenous peoples in The Americas have an oriental look about them? Shipwrecks off the west coast of The Americas from California down as far south as Chile have proven to be of Chinese origin (there was one found under the ice in Antarctica!) Also as these ships would find new lands they would colonise, leaving men women and livestock. In some of the Peruvian and Chilean Indian dialects the words for rice, water and chicken are almost identical to the Chinese words. DNA samples of Native Americans are more similar to Chinese than any other race. It is believed that the Chinese had sailed around the world centuries before the Europeans who have been credited as "the first" it is thought that Mao Tse Tung destroyed all the records of these voyages so it is now a matter of opinion. I recommend a book called "1452- The Year China Discovered America" sorry can't recall the name of the author, I read it and it is packed with amazing theories evidence etc.

The vikings

I believe that Columbus discovered America first

Amerigo found America. I learned it from my dad

It was leif Erikson at 1000 a.d. Or the vikings and leif was a viking

Amerigo Vespucci was a map maker. That's it. He made the first maps of the new world for the people back home in Europe. He signed all his maps "Amerigo"
Unfortunately, those in power in Europe were idiots and when they saw the map with the name Amerigo on it, they assumed that this was the name of the land depicted, so hense it was called Amerigo, which was cleaned up to America...History is full of mistakes by idiots thinking that they knew the answers just because they were noble birth!
Ed

Neither. It was already inhabited by the Native people who lived here. They "discovered" it.

I agree with the cameron if you look at rare history it dose say that

Actually the natives found the islands first but Amerigo Vespucci really travled and discovered it FOR the Portugese.

Amerigo found America. I learned it in class one day.