Exploration of North America

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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The Spanish voyages of Christopher Columbus opened the New World. Genoese navigator and explorer Giovanni Caboto (known in English as John Cabot) is credited ...

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America was discovered 20,000 years ago with the arrival of the first homo sapiens crossing over from Russia into Alaska.

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For a long time, America's discovery was routinely attributed to Christopher Columbus and his voyage of 1492. But the real story of human ...

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Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492. Americans get a day off work on October 10 to celebrate Columbus Day.

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On October 12, 1492, Columbus sighted a Bahamian island, believing he reached East Asia, and claimed the land for Spain. He later landed on Cuba and Hispaniola.

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The 1562 map, created by Diego Gutiérrez, was a large, ceremonial diplomatic map used to proclaim Spain's American territory, and was the largest for a century.

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