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Christopher Columbus led one of the first European expeditions to the Americas in 1492. He was actually looking for a new trade route to India, but he ended up in the Caribbean instead. That's why he referred to the natives as Indians, a name that stuck for centuries.
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∙ 9y agoDocumented evidence indicates that the first Europeans to reach North America were the Norse from Greenland. In 985, Erik the Red founded a settlement in what is now northern Canada.
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Erick the red had founded a settlement around the year 985.
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