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Many thousands of years before Christopher Columbus’ ships landed in the Bahamas, a different group of people discovered America: the nomadic ancestors of modern Native Americans who hiked over a “land bridge” from Asia to what is now Alaska more than 12,000 years ago. In fact, by the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million people were already living in the Americas. Of these, some 10 million lived in the area that would become the United States. As time passed, these migrants and their descendants pushed south and east, adapting as they went. In order to keep track of these diverse groups, anthropologists and geographers have divided them into “culture areas,” or rough groupings of contiguous peoples who shared similar habitats and characteristics. Most scholars break North America—excluding present-day Mexico—into 10 separate culture areas: the Arctic, the Subarctic, the Northeast, the Southeast, the Plains, the Southwest, the Great Basin, California, the Northwest Coast and the Plateau.
The Stamp Act Congress<span> or </span>First Congress of the American Colonies<span> was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in </span>New York City<span>, consisting of representatives from some of the </span>British colonies in North America<span>; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.</span>
The correct answer is Christopher Columbus.
Christopher Columbus is the European explorer credited with being the first European explorer to encounter the Americas. In his first voyage in 1492, Columbus landed in Hispaniola (modern day Dominican Republic). This encounter lead to several other European explorers setting out to colonize these new lands as a means to gain wealth.
