who discovered America?

America was named after Amerigo Vespucci(I don't know if I spelled it right), an explorer who came before Christopher Columbus and explored almost half of the new world. I don't know If I got it right but that's how I remember it

America was named after Americo Vespucci. Columbus never realized he had discovered a new continent. Vespucci did, so the continent was named after him. I still don´t find it fair. Many wonderful discoveries in every branch of human knowledge are made because someone was daring enough to explore for the first time the new path. I give my vote to those and not to the ones that come later (even if their work looks more awesome). Colombia was named after Columbus though. As for the people that were in America before Columbus, of course they had to come from somewhere. It´s fascinating the way all the time new theories open new roads of thoughts, including continents that were together then because of the ice age. Have a good day!

This is just a story but from what I understand, Asian people, mongolian people to be more precise, settled in America first... Some of them migrated south & settled, currently China, Korea, Japan & etc, some migrated north & settled & became eskimos & others... Ones that actually made over settled in "America" & they're modern day american indians... If you look at all those different people, you'll see a very similiar facial & other features... Just a thought...