FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Question
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Who were the first Europeans to “discover” the New World?
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The Portuguese
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Christopher Columbus
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The Vikings
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The Dutch
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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. Erikson and his crew didn’t stay long-only a few years-before returning to Greenland.
Detailed explanation-2: -Explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) is known for his 1492 ‘discovery’ of the New World of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria.
Detailed explanation-3: -Norwegian Vikings first discovered Iceland. The first was Naddod, who was blown off course sailing from Norway to the Faroe Islands in 861. He called the new island Snowland.
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