Early Europeans

Early Europeans EARLY EUROPEANS By: Travis H. The first Europeans to arrive in North America were Scandinavian, traveling west from Greenland, where Erik the Red had founded a settlement around the year 985. In 1001 his son Leif is view to have explored the northeast coast of what is now Canada and spent at least one winter there. While Scandinavian sagas offer up that Viking sailors explored the Atlantic coast of North America down as far as the Bahamas, such claims remain unproven.

In 1963, however, the ruins of any(prenominal) Norse houses dating from that era were discovered at LAnse-aux-Meadows in northern Newfoundland, thus supporting at least close to of the claims the Norse sagas make. In 1497, just five years after(prenominal) Christopher Columbus land in the Caribbean looking for a westbound route to Asia, a Venetian sailor named John Cabot arrived in Newfoundland on a mission for the British king. Although fairly readily forgotten, Cabots journey was later(prenominal) to provide the basis for British claims to N...If you regard to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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