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Renaissance Activity 1B Factsheet

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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 1451-1506

(1492) Discovered the Americas

*While trying to find a westward route from Europe to the Orient, he inadvertently discovered the Americas.
"He called the people on the shores of America "Indians" thinking he had landed in India."


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