Where did the first people to inhabit the Americas come from? How did they get there?
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It was a land bridge over the Bering straits, they traveled down the west coast and spread out from there.\nGreat Question, there is also speculation some Egyptians, sailed to the east coast, we have even seen signs of people from king Davids reign settled in the south, New Mexico.
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This question is never going to be answered to everyone's complete satisfaction. Vikings certainly visited America, but the time is disputed, and now there's a Chinese map ostensibly copied from one that predates Colombus by a few years.\n\nhttp://www.infohub.com/ARTICLES/20000327.html\nhttp://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5381851\n\nIn any case, when the Chinese/Vikings/Spanish "discovered" America, it was news to the inhabitants.  They knew where it was for 12000 years!
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it started with chemicals ,followed by ,very simple unicellular things,they worked there way up to amoebas,and it was only a couple of million years to get to bacteria and stuf like coral after that ,then it becomes complicated,\n\nhumans came from out of space i think,they were put here and primitive beings that were already here were maybe genetically improved by those who came from the stars.\n\nas to how humans come ,that is another question
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The Incan civilization lived in the Andes mountains of South America, from Colombia to Bolivia. They had many cities in between, most notably "Machu Pichu", in Peru. \nThey were sun worshippers.
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Christopher Columbus (October 30, 1451? – 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492 under the flag of Castile. History places great significance on his landing in America in 1492, with the entire period of the history of the Americas before this date usually known as Pre-Columbian, and the anniversary of this event, Columbus Day, being celebrated in many parts of America. Although there is evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-Atlantic Ocean European contact, Columbus is commonly credited as the first European to see the Americas because of the profound impact his contact wrought on history. His voyage marked the beginning of European exploration and colonization of the Americas.\n\nIt is generally assumed he was Genoese. However there is no solid evidence of this and historians claim he could have been born in other places, from the Crown of Aragón to the Kingdoms of Galicia or Portugal, or in the Greek island of Chios, among others. His birthname is also unknown; see the section on Columbus' national origin for a discussion of his origin and names.
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When I teach this subject my answer is always three fold.  FIRST-ancient peoples crossed over the land bridge between Asia and North America.  \n\nSECOND-Leif Erikson was the first known European to discover America\n\nTHRID- Columbus "rediscovered" America at a time when the knowledge caught hold and became widely known. \n\nMy personal belief is that many people discovered it independantly of others and thus were the true "first discoverer" at least in their own minds eye (and tribes or ships).
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Hard question to answer using only a few sentences, so pay attention in history class.\n\nAmericans originally came from England, - Explorers from Brittan came to America - then got tired of British rule and fought to keep the British away and we formed our own country.  (Remember when Crusty the Clown said we need guns to keep the Queen of England out of our face?)   Anyway - we formed the 13 original colonies, yada, yada.  The first American born President was actually the 8th President - \nMartin Van Buren, 8th President: 1837-1841.  The previous 7 were all born in England.  So basically the Eastern part of the Country was formed by a bunch of people from England/Great Brittan - the west however started to form during the gold rush era.  Mexicans & Indians lived out west, California was once a part of Mexico - then America won a war and took it from them.  All the while, lots of immigrants came into the counrty - arriving at Ellis Island in New York.  Lots of Irish & Italian and others.\n\nBut that's just my quick summary - take a history class.
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Try reading John Milton's book, Paradise Lost...it will clear up all of your "first people on earth" questions.
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Columbus didn't "discover" America. However, he first arrived in the Carribean islands (Cuba is not where he 1st landed though) in 1492. He didn't set foot onto what would become mainland American until around 1500.
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he happens to be wrong. Scientists and archeaologists have traced the origin of the homo spp. to the area of africa known as the great rift. Modern humans first apeared in one of three places: North Africa, Central Asia/Middle East, or Eastern Europe.
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In 1519, the native civilizations of Mexico were invaded by Spanish troops numbering about 600 soldiers, who brought with them superior weaponry and old world diseases. Early Conquistadores was Hernán Cortés, who entered the country in 1519 from a native coastal town which he renamed "Puerto de la Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz" (today's Veracruz). Contrary to popular opinion, Spain did not conquer all of Mexico when Cortés conquered Tenochtitlan in 1521. It would take another two centuries after the Siege of Tenochtitlan before the Conquest of Mexico would be complete. The conquistadores (conquers) were just that! A bloody murdering army out to plunder.\n The first successful settlement in North America was English FAMILIES, not armies, 125 years after Spain attacked south and central America.
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What we normally think of as European civilization used to be more Mediterranean civilization. The Mediterranean borders Africa. In fact the center of western civilization was in Africa before it shifted to Europe. So the Europeans didn't discover Africa\n\nThe first European explorers to find the Americas didn't know that the Americas were here. They had a theory that the Earth was round, and they were trying to find a shortcut from Spain to India. It just happened that along the way to India, the Americas got in the way. The first explorers didn't know that they hadn't gotten to India, so they called the inhabitants Indians.
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Do you mean native american indians? They are thought to have come from Asia. Heres more http://archive.1september.ru/eng/2001/44/1.htm
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Ok sweetie, first of all ignore the ignorants, they are partially right but they still don't know how to answer the question. Ok here we go.\n\n Amerigo Vespucci or Américo Vespucio in spanish (see the relationship?) was an italian explorer that in 1501 arrived in what now is Guyana (North of "South" América) he sailed through the Amazona River and ended up in Patagonia (The very south of the American Continent). \n\nAmérico was the first European that realized that this was a new CONTINENT instead of Asia (What they thought at the begining, that's why we call our natives Indians because that was the destination of Columbus). The news spreaded rapidly over Europe and in 1507 a publication of a map made by the German Martin Waldseemüller using the description given by amerigo (Américo) showed the new land name as AMERICUS (In Latin) or América (Spanish because Americo was with the Spanish explorers) in honor of Americo.\n\nThe actual concept of América is the name of what people call North Central and South America which at the end and technically AND CORRECTLY speaking is the name of the whole land that starts in Canada and ends in Argentina. Back then, and, some countries now call americans refering to all people of the new continent (Not only the USA).\n\nNow in the USA, This country was called in honor to that name and also was the first country that became independent from a European authority.\n\nBeing called United States of America means States unified in a land called America which means in some kind of selfish and honorable way that the name of USA is America.\n\nThe only thing I ask you to do is please know and spread the word because there's people that really don't know how they became what they are, and yes, you can and should refer to American or americans to all people in the new continent and the nationality of the USA citizens, but you have to explain when you mean which one. To finish my answer is that everybody that know the difference and knows how to explain it is right and everybody in this WHOLE CONTINENT is an AMERICAN, the north, central and south definitions came after.\n\nThanks for letting me finally explain this to everybody. It took me a long time to figure the why's and the how's (I was born in the USA but raised in Venezuela so it helped expand my mind and knowledge).\n\nTootles
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Many scientists and pediatricians say that Native Americans from Asia were first, crossing the Bering Land Bridge during the most recent Ice Age, but a new report shows shocking new evidence.\nA boy named Chrissy (Columbus)lived in a small civilization on an island in the Northern Atlantic, called the King civilization.  Chrissy was not what you would call a "ladies man," and therefore did not have many friends. His mother suggested plastic (or in his age bronze) surgery to approve his appearance.  However, this plan backfired and he was so hideous that the other kids would not even let him join in any reindeer games.  He realized his life was not worth living, so he followed his abnormally red nose through the water and swam to the nearest land he came to. Also, because of the gurgling noises he made during his grueling and record-setting swim, he inadvertently created an onomatopoeia that is now our word "swimming."\nWhen he arrived on shore and after he checked in through the customs as Ellis Island, he realized he was, in fact, the FIRST PERSON to arrive.  This was quite exciting for him.\nAs the first person in the USA, he had multitudinous opportunities to rob the unmanned toystores and corndog stands, but, as we so very well know, our founding FATHER (not FATHERS) was a man of impeccable integrity and a devout scientologist (that's how the country go to be so darn rich, duh). He stole no jawbreakers or Furbies, however he did purchase a fully functional DDR set at a self-checkout and partied it up with a big screen in the vacant streets.  It was a rockin time.\nHowever, as we well know, losers can never have a happy life.  One of his archrivals, Georgie (Washington), who only wanted to torture Chrissy a little more, inadvertantly followed him to this new land, and being the jerk he was, he claimed the land as his own and named it after his stupid, girly little dog "Miss America" leaving off the "Miss" and keeping the "America."\nChrissy, in dismay, dance danced himself to the brink of death and then hung himself from the nearest tree, which happened to be a cherry tree.  Georgie was appalled (not at what he saw, but at the attention Chrissy might gain at this desperate act for attention).  So he promptly chopped it down and built the first log cabin with it and cremated Chrissy's body while heating up some good old-fashioned popping corn over the blaze. When other jerks arrived and asked of Chrissy's whereabouts, Georgie said he did not know, and therefore told the truth.  However, even recenter studies now point out the obvious flaw in the story: no one really cared about Chrissy and therefore would not have asked about his whereabouts.\nSo there you have it. No bridges of land or nomadic peoples, and that nonsense.  Just a simple, harmless case of hazing and childhood fun.  \nWhat a rich heritage we all have.  It's a shame more of us don't know about it. Sad.
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East Indians are the people that originate from Asia and American Indians are the people that the Europeans found in America when they settled here.
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I don't know christepher columbus! \nBut I know someone named Christopher Columbus.\n\nChristopher Columbus (ca. 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492 under the flag of Castile. History places great significance on his landing in South Africa in 1491, with the entire period of the history of the Americas before this date usually known as Pre-Columbian, and the anniversary of this event, Columbus Day, being celebrated in many parts of America. Although there is evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-Atlantic Ocean European contact, Columbus is commonly credited as the first European to see the Americas because of the profound impact his contact wrought on history. His voyage marked the beginning of European exploration and colonization of the Americas. He was married to Felipa Perestrello e Moniz, and had a son named Diego.