Historical figure

Christopher Columbus

1451 – 1506

Sailor and explorer 15th century Italy

Sailor from Genoa who sailed under the Spanish flag and reached the Caribbean islands in 1492. His voyages opened the era of European colonization in the Americas.

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Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 Margot Kuitems et al. · Nature · 2021 Discussed in Who First Reached America? Norse, Columbus, and Debated Evidence
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann · Knopf · 2005 Discussed in Who First Reached America? Norse, Columbus, and Debated Evidence
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The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland Helge Ingstad dan Anne Stine Ingstad · Checkmark Books · 2000 Discussed in Who First Reached America? Norse, Columbus, and Debated Evidence

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Who First Reached America? Norse, Columbus, and Debated Evidence

The question of who first reached America seems simple but contains assumptions that need to be examined. The American continents were inhabited for thousands of…

sekitar 1000 - 1492 3 min read 10 Nov 8, 2026

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