Christopher Columbus did not discover a new world, nor did he ever set foot on the North American continent. Rather, he established continuous contact between two continents, each with major …

Nov 21, 2025 · Christopher Columbus was a navigator who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain. Some people think of him as the "discoverer" of America, but this is not strictly true. His …

Nov 9, 2009 · Christopher Columbus did not “discover” the Americas, nor was he even the first European to visit the “New World.” (Viking explorer Leif Erikson had sailed to Greenland and …

May 4, 2025 · In 1492, a Genoese navigator named Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic Ocean under the Spanish crown—and made history. Though he believed he had reached Asia, …

May 22, 2025 · Columbus has long been regarded as the first European explorer to sail to America, but even that is almost certainly untrue. Historians now believe the first known European contact with …

May 7, 2025 · Columbus did not discover America; people lived there for at least 15,000 years before him. Vikings, like Leif Erikson, reached North America centuries before Christopher Columbus's …

Sep 3, 2025 · Even if you were to overlook the not-so-minor fact that millions of people were already living in the Americas in 1492, the fact is that Columbus never set foot on the shores of North America.

Oct 12, 2020 · Columbus' journeys opened the way for later European expeditions, but he himself never claimed to have discovered America.

Mar 23, 2025 · Sponsored by Spain, Columbus set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a new trade route to Asia, but instead encountered the Americas, initiating centuries of exploration, …

5 days ago · Who discovered America? The person who discovered America is not simply Christopher Columbus. The continent was first settled by the ancestors of Indigenous peoples tens of thousands …