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Nov 7, 1000
Viking Exploration- Leif Eriksson
Leif Eriksson was one of the first European to discover the North Americas centuries before Columbus. -
Nov 7, 1400
Prince Henry sponsored portugo exploration
He funded a group of Portugal explorers, he helped them in money and sponsored them. -
Nov 7, 1421
Zheng He possibly reaches america
Some believe that Zheng He discovers america some 70 years before Columbus, but some don't believe that. He was born in China. -
Nov 8, 1492
Columbus first voyage
In 1492 Columbus set out on his voyage and they were some of the first christens to set foot in the new world. He made between 1492-1502. -
Nov 17, 1492
The Columbian Exchange
It was an exchange between the Europeans and Indians, they food, disease. -
Nov 8, 1497
Vasco de Gama
He was the first European explorer to leave Europe by ship and sail to India by going around Africa. He was a Portuguese explorer -
Nov 8, 1499
Amerigo Vespucci
He was best known because he discovered present-day Rio de Janeiro. Believing he had discovered a new continent, he called South America. -
Nov 8, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
He set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western route to the Spice Island on route he discovered what is now known as the Strait of Magellan and became the first European to cross the Pacific. -
Aug 13, 1521
Hernan Cortez, conquest of the Aztecs
He was best known for the conquest of the Aztecs and the taking of land for Spain. -
Nov 10, 1530
Francisco Pizarro
He was best known for the conquest of the Incan empire. He did it by captureing the capital Cuzco. -
Atlantic Slave trade
was the biggest deportation in history and a factor in the world money of the 18century millions of Africans were torn from their homes, deported to the American continent and sold as slaves.
