前传：夏威夷原住民和北美最早的欧洲殖民者

夏威夷原住民和北美最早的欧洲殖民者

太平洋上的波利尼西亚人从一世纪开始逐渐定居在夏威夷群岛上成为最早的原住民，英国殖民者直到18世纪才姗姗来迟，但很快就凭借先进的武器帮助岛上的卡美哈梅哈一世征服周遭民族，开创了夏威夷王国。欧洲对北美最早的记载出现于大约公元1075年，中世纪来自德国不来梅的历史学家亚当，美洲此时被称为文兰。1925年美国总统柯立芝称挪威探险者莱夫埃里克森是第一个发现美洲的欧洲人。

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NativeHawaiians

Polynesiansbegan to settle in the Hawaiian Islands between the 1st and 10th centuries.Around 1200 CE, Tahitian explorers found and began settling the area as well.This marked the rise of the Hawaiian civilization, which would be largelyseparated from the rest of the world until the arrival of the British 600 yearslater. Europeans under the British explorer James Cook arrived in the HawaiianIslands in 1778, and within five years of contact, European military technologywould help Kamehameha I conquer most of the people, and eventually unify theislands for the first time; establishing the Hawaiian Kingdom.

Norseexploration

Theearliest recorded European mention of America is in a historical treatise bythe medieval chronicler Adam of Bremen, circa 1075, where it is referred to asVinland.[b] It is also extensively referred to in the 13th-century NorseVinland Sagas, which relate to events which occurred around 1000. Whilst thestrongest archaeological evidence of the existence of Norse settlements inAmerica is located in Canada, most notably at L'Anse aux Meadows and dated tocirca 1000, there is significant scholarly debate as to whether Norse explorersalso made landfall in New England and other east-coast areas.[16] In 1925,President Calvin Coolidge declared that a Norse explorer called Leif Erikson(c.970 – c.1020) was the first European to discover America.

（摘自英文维基百科，美国历史词条）