Who discoverd America first, Columbus or Lois and Clark during their expedition?
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Considering Columbus never really made it to America, I would have to say Lewis and Clark would have to be the pick of the two you mentioned.  Columbus got as far as the Bahamas and stopped. Hence his new found world, but never really made it to America.
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1).  "Columbus made a fourth voyage nominally in search of the Strait of Malacca to the Indian Ocean. Accompanied by his brother Bartolomeo and his 13-year-old son FERNANDO, he left Cádiz, Spain on May 11, 1502, with the ships Capitana, Gallega, Vizcaína and Santiago de Palos. "\n\n2).  "Ferdinand Columbus (Italian: Fernando Colombo, Spanish: Fernando Colón, Córdoba, Spain, 15 August? 1488 - Sevilla, Spain, 1539) was the second son of Christopher Columbus. His mother was Beatriz Enriquez de Harana, whom his father never married, but who was Columbus' constant companion in later life.\n\nFernando was born in Cordoba, and spent his early years there with his mother. After Columbus's triumphant return from his first voyage, Fernando was appointed a page to the Spanish crown prince Don Juan, but transferred to the service of Queen Isabella following the young prince's untimely death.\n\nBetween the ages of 13 and 15, Fernando was a crewmember on Columbus' fourth voyage to the New World. After his father's death, Fernando accompanied his older brother Diego to the New World in 1509 upon Diego's appointment as governor of Hispaniola. But Fernando preferred a more settled life, and returned to Spain a few months later."\n\nHope that's enough (  :
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Fort Clatsop \n\nhttp://www.ourheritage.net/Lewis_and_Clark/quote1806.html
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lewis and clark were people who went west of the US at that time (1803). they were to explore the Louisiana Purchase that thier president bought from france. they brought back valuble maps and information of the lousiana purchase and west of that
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What would my being an atheist have anything to do with the existence of Christopher Columbus?  It's documented history that he landed his ship in the Americas.  It's a common misconception that he discovered them as well.  Understanding history has no bearing on whether or not I believe in God...
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the first country to be discovered was west indies. hemant it's aditya.
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Funny question!!! I'd say the Phoenicians were the ones who discovered us in the sense Columbus discovered America. The sailed the Mediterranean, arrived in the South of Spain 3000 years ago and founded the town of Cadiz, which still exists. Actually, it is the oldest Western town!!
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I remember hearing that when Columbus set out to sail around the world (1492), people thought that the earth was flat and that he would fall off the edge. I have also heard that this is just a myth, people did not really believe that.
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Lewis and Clark found the animals between 1804 and 1806.  They sent that information and information about indian tribes to President Jefferson.
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By definition, the Native Americans who came across the Bering Sea (in theory):\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/immigrant\n\nOtherwise--the first non-native to arrive was Leif Erikson:\nhttp://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1575056496&id=sZwtPXP4uygC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=first+person+to+set+foot+in+America&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Dfirst%2Bperson%2Bto%2Bset%2Bfoot%2Bin%2BAmerica&sig=K-S6AAqUaDtl0H2no_c3qaTmoJ8
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ever hear of the Lewis and Clark Expedition? You should have learned this in school in at least middle school.
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If you believe the landbridge story connecting Asia to America, then Asian nomads first approached onto America and became the Native Americans after settling down.\n\nIf not, then the vikings were the first people to come to America with evidence. There are remains of a settlement up on Newfoundland which ceased to survive. Christopher Columbus (who was looking for the India in Asia), winded up landing in one of the Carribean islands and made that contineant famous in Europe.
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Background\n\nThomas Jefferson had long thought about such an expedition. While Minister to France from 1785-1789, Jefferson had heard of numerous plans to better explore the Pacific Northwest. In 1785, Jefferson learned that King Louis XVI of France planned to send a mission there, reportedly as a mere scientific expedition. Jefferson found that doubtful, and evidence provided by John Paul Jones confirmed these doubts. In either event, the mission was destroyed by bad weather after leaving Botany Bay in 1788. In 1786 John Ledyard, who had sailed with Captain James Cook to the Pacific Northwest, told Jefferson that he planned to walk across Siberia, ride a Russian fur-trade vessel to cross the ocean, and then walk all the way to the American capitol. Since Ledyard was an American, Jefferson hoped him success. Ledyard had made it as far as Siberia when Czarina Catherine the Great had him arrested and deported back to Poland. [1]\n\nIn a message to Congress, Jefferson wrote[2]\n\n    The river Missouri, and Indians inhabiting it, are not as well known as rendered desirable by their connection with the Mississippi, and consequently with us. ... An intelligent officer, with ten or twelve chosen men ... might explore the whole line, even to the Western Ocean ...\n\nIn a letter dated June 20, 1803, Jefferson wrote to Lewis[3]\n\n    The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal stream of it as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific ocean whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purposes of commerce.\n\nLouisiana Purchase and a western expedition\nThe famous map of Lewis and Clark's expedition. It changed mapping of northwest America by providing the first accurate depiction of the relationship of the sources of the Columbia and Missouri rivers, and the Rocky Mountains.\n\nThe famous map of Lewis and Clark's expedition. It changed mapping of northwest America by providing the first accurate depiction of the relationship of the sources of the Columbia and Missouri rivers, and the Rocky Mountains.\n\nIn 1803, the Louisiana Purchase sparked interest in expansion to the west coast. A few weeks after the purchase, President Jefferson, an advocate of western expansion, had the Congress appropriate $2,500, "to send intelligent officers with ten or twelve men, to explore even to the Western ocean". They were to study the Indian tribes, botany, geology, Western terrain and wildlife in the region, as well as evaluate the potential interference of British and French Canadian hunters and trappers who were already well established in the area. The expedition was not the first to cross North America but was roughly a decade after the expedition of Alexander MacKenzie, the first European to cross north of Mexico (almost) to the Pacific Ocean, in 1793.\n\nJefferson selected Captain Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition, afterwards known as the Corps of Discovery; Lewis selected William Clark as his partner. Because of bureaucratic delays in the U.S. Army, Clark officially only held the rank of Second Lieutenant at the time, but Lewis concealed this from the men and shared the leadership of the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain"[1].\n\nJourney\n\n    See also: Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition\n\nMeriwether Lewis and William Clark meeting at the falls of the Ohio River; statue at the Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, Indiana (across from Louisville)\nEnlarge\nMeriwether Lewis and William Clark meeting at the falls of the Ohio River; statue at the Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, Indiana (across from Louisville)\n\nClark made most of the preparations, by way of letters to Jefferson. He brought two large buckets and five smaller buckets of salt, a ton of dried pork, and medicines.\n\nThe group, initially consist
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John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
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Christopher Columbus did not go anywhere to try and be free. He got lost.
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Columbus was challenged by the Spanish government, specifically the Queen, to disprove the commonly accepted  notion that the world was flat.  Conceptually, the formulation of his proof that the world was indeed "round" (spherical, or possible cylindrical - it's not specified in history texts what "round" meant to Columbus) was that if he could set some starting point and then sail around the world in a constant direction, should he return to his starting point then his theory would be proved.\n\nHe ended up in the Indies, which has ever since been named the "West Indies", but thought he was elsewhere.  As far as Columbus was concerned, he was sure that he had found some one of the outermost islands of Cipango or Japan. So he dropped his anchors, ordered out his rowboat, and prepared to take possession of the land in the name of the queen of Spain, who had helped him in his enterprise.\n\nOf course, he wasn't in Japan or Cipango...if you want a full text detail of the story, follow the link in references...this was the short version.\n\nI hope this helps you!!
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i think it was lewis and clark