History of North America

What are the names of 3 people who discoved America?

No single person discovered America. America (the Americas) was inhabited by diverse Indigenous peoples for thousands of years before its eventual "discovery" by Europeans. The arrival of European explorers in the late 15th century, notably Christopher Columbus in 1492, marked the beginning of a tumultuous era of exploration, conquest, and colonization that had profound impacts on both the Indigenous peoples and the continents they had called home.

European explorers who followed Columbus in his wake include but are not limited to John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci, Juan Ponce de León, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Jacques Cartier, and Samuel de Champlain, among many others.