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Who Is The First To Discover America
Anthony Underwood
8/25/2010
History 1 t-th 8-9:25

The First Americans And Who Discovered America

First Americans: Many believe that the first Americans were Indians(Native Americans), but recent studies have shown that the first Americans may have been decedents of the native Aborigines in Australia who are believed to have migrated to the Americas long before the Native Americans, who are descends of the Mongoloid people from northeast Asia.

Who Discovered America First: Well as we were all taught in grade school Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America. But over the years that has been proven wrong. In fact now days most historians will say that Lief Ericson was the first to discover America. However, I think its

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