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who came to north america before the vikings
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It is generally accepted that men walked across the then land bridge where the Bering Strait is now from Russia to Alaska about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. They and their descendants then colonised the whole of North and South America.
Other people may well have migrated across the Pacific from China and Polynesia, but you will understand that the evidence is scant.
The first from the European side may well have been Albans, the people who were driven from most of Britain to the Orkneys, then to Iceland, to Greenland and probably on to North America by first the Celts (Ancient Britons), then the Vikings. The Albans wanted a safe place to live and walrus to hunt for the ivory in their tusks. They would have first come to North America between about 500 and 800 A.D.
Besides the humans who are assumed to have crossed the Russia-Siberia ice bridge to America some 10000 years ago, it is thought by historian Gavin Menzies (who wrote 1421: The Year China discovered America) That a Chinese expeditionary fleet came across America seventy years before Columbus did. While this certainly happend after the Vikings are thought to have come, it nonetheless makes for an interesting historical footnote.
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