Key moments of great geographical discoveries made by the Europeans in the fifteenth century
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Bartholomew Diaz reached the Cape of Good Hope, the tip of Africa
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Columbus leaves from Genoa and reaches the American continent,sure to be in Asia
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The Venetian brothers John and Sebastian Cabot discovered Canada
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The Portuguese Vasco De Gama circumnavigated Africa and found a route to the Indies by sea
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The Florentine Amerigo Vespucci shows that the lands discovered by Columbus belong to a new continent, America, that he will name
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The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reaches Earth Fire, South America and discovers a new ocean: the Pacific
