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1000 CE
A Viking named Lief Erickson sailed from Greenland to Canada. -
1271 CE
Marco Polo left Europe to go to Asia when he was 17. It took 4 years to get to China. 200 years later Marco Polo influenced Europeans to go to Asia. -
1453 CE
The Turks conquered Constantinople. -
1488 CE
Bartholomeu Dias was the first to sailall the way around the southern tip of Asia. -
1492 CE
In 1492 Martin Behaim made the first globe. -
1498 CE
Vasco da Gama reach India by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope
