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United States of America

Amerigo Vespucci

Powhatan Indian

Approximately 25,000 to 40,000 years ago tasks Mongolian hunters (the ancestors of the Indians) via an existing isthmus when the Bering Street from Siberia to Alaska. In the course of centuries, some tribes in southern direction penetrated New Mexico and Arizona, while others through the Rocky Mountains the Atlantic coast would have achieved. There are various stories about who the east coast of America has discovered, it is still not finally elucidated. It is generally held that the October 11, 1492 Christopher Columbus, an sea captain from Genoa in the service of the Spanish Crown, has been. He discovered America. With its landing on the island in the Bahamas, which he called San Salvador, a discovery of world historical significance made. Five years later continued John Cabot, a Genoese sailor, foot ashore in Newfoundland, that he for King Henry VII of England, took possession. In 1533, the Spanish explorer Ponce de León the coast of Florida. The idea of the New World to the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci "America" called, came from a German cartographer.

Christophorus Columbus

     
John Cabot                                               Ponce de León