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Ptolemy creates the first flat map of the world
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Swedish Viking Garðar Svavarsson circumnavigates Iceland.
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Náttfari becomes the first permanent resident of Iceland.
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Ingólfur Arnarson builds his homestead in present-day Reykjavík.
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Eric the Red discovers Greenland.
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Leif Ericson discovers North America.
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Marco Polo goes to China. with the silk route traded gun powder for silk ,paper ,spices
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João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira discover Porto Santo
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Diogo de Silves discovers the Azores.
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Nuno Tristão passes Cape Blanco.
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The Portuguese reach Cape Verde and the Gambia River.
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Prince Henry the Navigator builds school for sailors.
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Turkish Empire cuts off the land route for spices from Asia to Europe. Search for sea route begins.
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Alvise Cadamosto and Diogo Gomes explored the Cape Verde Islands.
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Pêro de Sintra reaches Sierra Leone.
