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One of the most famous Norse explorers, Leif Eriksson, discovered Greenland around
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Norse sailors explored and settled limited areas on the shores of present-day Greenland and Canada.
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Infante Dom Henrique sailed to the Madeiras an Azores, and south, along the coast of Africa.
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fernao gomes he sailed along the coast of Africa Guinea coast, every year going 100 leagues further
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Diogo Cão - Discovered the mouth of the Congo River
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Extensive European colonization
and Christopher columbus -
era is known as the period of the Columbian Exchange, a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable disease, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres following Columbus's voyages to the Americas
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Ratified by the Pope, these 2 kingdoms divided the entire non-European world into 2 areas of exploration and colonization
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Vasco de Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India and helped establish European trade in the Indian Ocean.
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Ferdinand Magellan proved the world was round by circumnavigating the globe
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In February, 1520, they were exploring the coast of Patagonia
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Juan Ponce de Leon - set sail from San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 15th, 1521. He went to colonize Florida, and had seeds, and priests to convert the Indians
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sailed south for about 110 miles, and turned north, to avoid running into any Spaniards, he sailed another 250 miles north, along the coast
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the northern Mayan cities had been defeated, and 500,000 were sold into slavery
