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BlackZzzverrR [31]
3 years ago
5

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

History
2 answers:
Tasya [4]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

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.

katovenus [111]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

False

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