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Marco Polo, a merchant from vencie, first visited China in 1271. In his journal he described countries he had been told stories of a rich 'south land'.
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The portuguese were worried that their wealthy trade in the far east was wide open for attack. and sent three armadas to find magallenThey faild to find him but it destroyed the ships
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By 1628 half of Australia's coastline had been mapped by Dutch eexplores. The Dutch wanted to establish a colony in the great south land, which they had named New Holland.
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Aboriginies
They would feel very scared because the white people had taken over their land.
