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VIKINGS: THE NORTH ATLANTIC SEA VOYAGE
Leif Ericson or Leif the Lucky is officially the first European to discover America, and not Christopher Columbus that still think discovered it until today. The Vikings only made a small number of actual trips to America causing few to recognize his achievement. He was living on Greenland and had heard that their might be more lands to the west. They landed and lived for one winter at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfo -
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Columbus started his voyage to the Americas on August 3, 1492. Then he took a quick stop at the Canary Islands and continued on September 6. His three ships were called the Nina, the Piñata and the Santa Maria. To keep his crew quiet he kept two ship logs one that showed the actual length they traveled and one that showed a shorter amount of time. Finely the crew was ready to mutiny but Columbus said that if they waited two more days then they would turn back, they found land the next day.
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