European powers employed sailors and geographers to map and explore North America with the goal of economic, religious and military expansion.

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10 Oct 2016 — America was really discovered a people known as Pre-Clovis who crossed a land bridge between Asian and America 15000 years ago.

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On the morning of Oct. 12, 1492, the master navigator Christopher Columbus stepped ashore on an island in the Americas. The arrival of his ships in the Western ...

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Columbus left Castile in August 1492 with three ships and made landfall in the Americas on 12 October, ending the period of human habitation in the Americas now ...

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8 Oct 2007 — Most of us were taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Yet it is far from clear cut. There are alternative theories about who ...

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8 Sept 2022 — People found the Americas at least seven different times. For at least six of those, it wasn't so new after all. The discoverers came by sea and by land.

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15 Oct 2011 — October 9 is Leif Erikson Day, honoring the Viking (or Norse) explorer who sailed his crew to the first recorded landing of Europeans in North America around ...

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10 Jun 2024 — When America was "discovered" by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, Viking navigators had already landed on the New World's ...

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The short answer for why it took so long for Europeans, Africans, and Asians to reach the Americas is because it took a long time for societal ...

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