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The Vikings landed in Greenland also known as present day Canada.
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Noyone travelled because they were scared of sea monsters, that the sea would boil them, and that they werent shure the world was round.
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Marco Polo traveled from Italy to Asia with his father and uncle.
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Approximately 200 years passed until Marco Polo's book was read by other explorers. It also inspired them to travel tio the Far East.
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The Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople
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Dias found a water route to Asia.
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Marco Polo's book inspired others to travel to Asia for riches which started the European exploration.
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De Gama landed in India. His father was supposed to travel instead< but died before he go there.
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Martin Waldseemuller was a cartographer who drew a map of the continant that Vesspucci found. He named that new continant after him, AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Balboa was the one who discovered what is now the Pacific Ocean by climing a mountin and peering over the opisite side as the Atlantic Ocean.
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It took three years, but Magellan finally accomplished something others coud'nt. HE SAILED AROUND THE WORD TO GET TO ASIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hernando Cortes was an explorer who came to South America and conquired it. He so like this: When he came the people there thought he was g-d so they allowed him into their home. Thats when he wipped out everyone. The reason they came to South Amerca is so they could get gold, land, and converts.
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Pizarro went to the Aztec Empire right in the middle of a civil war. He captured the leader. In exchange for hif freedom the leader promised gold, but Pizarro killed him anyway.
