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A Viking named Lief Erickson sailed from Greenland to Canada.
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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.
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The Turks conquered Constantinople.
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Bartholomeu Dias was the first to sailall the way around the southern tip of Asia.
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In 1492 Martin Behaim made the first globe.
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Vasco da Gama reach India by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope