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Leif Erikson is a Norse explorer who led the first Europeans thought to have set foot in North America.
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Zheng He was a was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming Dynasty. He commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433.
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Prince Henry is known as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discoveries. He is responsible for the early development of Portuguese exploration and maritime trade.
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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Columbus's first voyage was on August 2, 1492. He left from Palos de la Frontera to India.
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Vasco de Gama was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. He went on his voyage to India in 1497 to 1499.
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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus's voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Old Worlders.
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Ferdinand Magellam was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian expedition
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Hernan Cortez was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
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Francisco Pizarro was a conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Incan Empire. He captured and killed the Incan emperor Atahualpa and claimed the lands for Spain.
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It was a transfer of animals, plants, culture, human population, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th century.
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The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
