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At 30, Leif Errikson landed in Vinland which is now called Newfoundland. This was important because Leif Errikson was the first european to make it in North America. While he was there, he got into a fight with the natives and never came back.
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Marco Polo was a trader. He went to Asia when he was at the age of 17.
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In the year of 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks.
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Diaz sailed close to Asia, but didn't make it. He got passed Cape of Good Hope, but his crew got sick and had to turn back to Lisbon.
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Martin Behaim tried to create a leather ball that shows the earth. It didn't look like much. It didn't have most of the world.
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Vasco Da Gama finally made it to Asia!!!!!!!!!!!
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Martin Waldseemüller put "America" on his map.
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first Europeanto see the Pacific Ocean. He crossed the Isthmus of Panama, saw an ocean, then looked back and saw another.
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Ferdinand Magellan and his crew were the first to travel across the Pacific Ocean.
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Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire.
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Francisco Pizarro conquered the Incan Empire.
