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in a.d. 1000a man named leif erikson sailed from greenland to vinland,canada.leifs brother, thorvaldcame and found nine people sleeping under boats they kiiled all of them but one escaped then he came back with a army and kiiled thorvald and ended the vikings trip to north america
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in 1271 a man named marco polo went from venice,italy to asiaand saw the most amazing thing 2oo years later the adventures of marco polo were made into a book
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in 1453 there were a people known as the turks who were from ottoman,empire captuered the city of constantinople and took control of the middle east closing trade routes from europe and asia
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in 1488 a man named batholomeu dias was the first to sail aroundthe southern tip of africa the sailors grew sick and hungry and made him go back to potugal
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in 1492 a man named martin behaim made the first globe ever made in europe. the globe was all wrong.he did not know about the other continents
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in 1498 a man named vasca da gama sailed around the tip of africa and got to india after he came back to portugal with a ship full of spices
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there was a man named martin waldseemuller he drew a map of america and named it after amerigo vespucci
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There was a man named Vasco Nunez de Balboa. He climed a mountain with African soldiers and Native American guides. When he got to the top he found the Pacific Ocean.
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There was an explorer named Ferdinand Magellan. Magellan tried to get to Asia by sailing west around the Americas. He sailed to what is now Brazil and then south along South America's eastern coast.
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There was a man named Hernando Cortes. He conquered the Aztecs because they had tons of gold. The king Motecuhzoma thought that Cortes was Quetzalcoatl, the light skinned God and then cortes killed him and conquered the aztecs.
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There was a man named Francisco Pizzaro, he conquered the Incas. The Incas were having a war of there own between brother and brother named Atahuallpa and Huascar. After Atahuallpa won the war, Pizarro went and killed Atahuallpa and conquered the Incas.