The exploration of North America by European sailors and geographers was an effort by major European powers to map and explore the continent with the goal...
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The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating...
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The exploration of the Americas includes: Exploration of North America Age of Discovery § Exploring North America Timeline of the European colonization...
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now Newfoundland, called Vinland by the Norse. Later European exploration of North America resumed with Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition sponsored...
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Vinland sagas (category Cultural depictions of Leif Erikson)
evidence of Viking exploration of North America through the descriptions of topography, natural resources, and native culture. In comparing the events of both...
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Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory...
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Freydís Eiríksdóttir (section Saga of the Greenlanders)
the daughter of Erik the Red (as in her patronym), who figured prominently in the Norse exploration of North America as an early colonist of Vinland, while...
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North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic...
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Northwest Passage (redirect from North-West Passage)
desire to establish such a route motivated much of the European exploration of both coasts of North America, also known as the New World. When it became...
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the Age of Discovery Exploration of North America European maritime exploration of Australia Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration History of navigation...
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