FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS THE OLMECS TO CORTES
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Conquering the Native Americans
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First European to Reach North America
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First European to Reach South America
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Becoming chief designer behind Sony Ericssons phones
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Detailed explanation-1: -970, Erikson sailed to Norway around A.D. 1000, where King Olaf I converted him to Christianity. According to one school of thought, Erikson sailed off course on his way back to Greenland and landed on the North American continent, where he explored a region he called Vinland .
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Eiríks saga rauða (“Erik the Red’s Saga”), while returning to Greenland in about 1000, Leif was blown off course and landed on the North American continent, where he observed forests with excellent building timber and grapes, which led him to call the new region Vinland (“Land of Wine”).
Detailed explanation-3: -Over four voyages he ‘discovered’ much of the Caribbean, and the North and East coasts of South and Central America, in his quest to find a Northern passage to the spice-rich East Indies.
Detailed explanation-4: -10th Century-The Vikings: The Vikings’ early expeditions to North America are well documented and accepted as historical fact by most scholars. Around the year 1000 A.D., the Viking explorer Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, sailed to a place he called “Vinland, ” in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland.