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Leif Eriksson was one of the first European to discover the North Americas centuries before Columbus.
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He funded a group of Portugal explorers, he helped them in money and sponsored them.
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Some believe that Zheng He discovers america some 70 years before Columbus, but some don't believe that. He was born in China.
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In 1492 Columbus set out on his voyage and they were some of the first christens to set foot in the new world. He made between 1492-1502.
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It was an exchange between the Europeans and Indians, they food, disease.
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He was the first European explorer to leave Europe by ship and sail to India by going around Africa. He was a Portuguese explorer
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He was best known because he discovered present-day Rio de Janeiro. Believing he had discovered a new continent, he called South America.
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He set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western route to the Spice Island on route he discovered what is now known as the Strait of Magellan and became the first European to cross the Pacific.
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He was best known for the conquest of the Aztecs and the taking of land for Spain.
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He was best known for the conquest of the Incan empire. He did it by captureing the capital Cuzco.
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was the biggest deportation in history and a factor in the world money of the 18century millions of Africans were torn from their homes, deported to the American continent and sold as slaves.
