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Why is America called America?
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To the end of his life, Columbus belives that his discoveries were part of Asia. the man who did most to correct that mistake was Amerigo Verspuci.
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who was Leif Ericson?
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Leif Ericson, also know Lucky Leif. was a sailor from Iceland that sailed from Greenland to the eastern coast of North America in about the year AD1000
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Who was Ponce de Léon?
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Ponce de Léon was a Spanish conquistador who came to the New World with Colombus on the explorer's second voyage. He became the governor of the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. He was the one that searched for the fountain of Youth, but never found, but did clause Florida for Spain.
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who were the ones that began the lasting European occupation of America
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it were the Spanish.
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What causes Hernan Cortes to conquer the Aztects in the 1520s
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a lust for Gold
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