True or False: North America was not inhabited before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492

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Christopher Vazquez

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26 August, 13:38

True or False: North America was not inhabited before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492

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Arielle Meadows · Answer 1

This is false.

Explanation:

North America was in fact inhabited before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Five hundred years before Columbus, a band of Vikings led by Leif Eriksson set foot in North America and established a settlement. Also, long before that, some scholars believe, the Americas seem to have been visited by travelers from China, and perhaps by visitors from Africa and maybe even Ice Age Europe.