Открытие Америки

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The discoverers of America may be: The first people, occupied America, are the indigenous American Indians, who were transferred there about 30 thousand years ago from Asia on the Bering isthmus .

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In the X century, about 1000 g. - the Norwegian Vikings led by Leif Eriksson

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In 1492 - Christopher Columbus (Genoese in the service of Spain); Columbus believed that opened the way to Asia (hence the name of the West Indies, the Indians).

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Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus (ital. Cristoforo Colombo, Sri. Cristóbal Colón, lat. Christophorus Columbus; autumn 1451, Genoa Republic - may 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain) is a Spanish Navigator of Italian origin, in 1492 opened for Europeans America. Columbus was the first of fairly well-known travelers crossed the Atlantic ocean in the subtropical and tropical strip of the Northern hemisphere and the first of the Europeans went in the Caribbean sea. He initiated the study of South and Central America. He opened all the Big Antilles - the Central part of the Bahamian archipelago, the Small Antilles (from Dominica to the virgin Islands inclusive), as well as a number of small Islands in the Caribbean sea and the island of Trinidad on the shores of South America.

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In 1507 year - cartographer M. Valdgemuller suggested to open land were named America in honor of the Explorer of the New world of Florence Amerigo Vespucci - this is considered the point from which America was recognized as an independent continent.

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There are sufficient grounds to believe that the continent was named by the names of British philanthropist Richard America from Bristol[1], which financed the second transatlantic expedition John Cabot in 1497 str., and Vespucci took his nickname in honor of already named the continent. In may 1497-th Cabot reached the coast of Labrador, becoming the first officially registered Europeans set foot on American soil, in the two years before Vespucci (talking about North America ). Cabot made a map of the coast of North America - from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland. In the calendar of events for the year read: "... in the day of St. John the Baptist [June 24] found the land of America merchants of Bristol, who arrived by boat from Bristol with the name of «Matthew ».

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