So who found America?

 So who found America?

In the beginning, I must say that when we are talking about the finder of America we should rather say "the first European, who visited in America and made a document about that thing. Nowadays we know that Viking Leif Erikson(1)visited Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the year 970 and he spent a year in that place.

But then we must ask the question, how Leif Erikson knew that there was land in the west? How did he dare to take his crew to Newfoundland? Could it be possible that he met some Indians in Iceland?

Did somebody tell Columbus about the existence of America? So did Columbus know the location of America, when he went on his famous journey in 1492?

We must understand that the places found when the ruler of the nation has been allowed to find them. So there is the possibility that Cristopher Columbus (1451-1506)(2) has known the existence of America, and if he knew that thing where did he get the information? When he started to sail to the new world in the year 1492 he went to the great unknown. America was not on the map during that time. How do you think that this man got financial support for his journey?

How did he confess his supporters about the existence of America? The thing is that Columbus was Italian, he was born in Genoa, and that caused his home language should be Italian or whatever was the language, what was spoken in that area. How did he confess the journey to America was economical and politically reasonable?

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Cristopher Columbus (1451-1506) (Wikipedia)

And was Columbus even the first European who visited America after Leif Erikson? (2) Were there some people between that Viking and Columbus, whoever wanted to tell about America to the king? Maybe those people were political refugees, who wanted to stay in that area, which was not on maps, because they might want to hide the Inquisition. This is only hypothetical thinking, but there is the possibility that some pirates or other kind of Europeans visited America before Columbus.

There should be some kind of proof that the journey was not made for nothing the three ships were delivered to his command. But the fact is that Columbus only sailed and mapped America during his three journeys. So who found America?

Many people think that Leif Erikson made the first settlement in Newfoundland in the year 970. The other thing is that there are stories that the Welsh or even the Ancient Phoenicians or Egyptians traveled across the Atlantic on purpose or accidentally. Or is it possible that some Indians like Pakal the Great have been traveled to Europe?

But the thing is that there is the possibility that the Arabic or Chinese explorers have traveled to America. But should we stop thinking about the people who have found America by using Europe as the center of the thinking? What if Chinese or some Eastern Russian explorers have been traveled to America before Columbus?

What if those people did not report their findings to their masters? We are almost sure that Polynesians visited the coast of America before Columbus. But when we are thinking about that mystery, we must ask how should we describe the words "finder of America"? Should we rather say "first European who visited America"?

(1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

https://www.history.com/news/the-viking-explorer-who-beat-columbus-to-america

https://curiosityanddarkmatter.home.blog/2021/01/04/so-who-found-america/