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America
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Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer known to be the first European to have landed in North…
Christopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa,…
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
5
Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC in…
Strabo was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Strabo is mostly famous for his…
Sophronius was the Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 until his death, and is venerated as a…
Henry the Navigator was an infante of the Kingdom of Portugal and an important figure in the…
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human being to…
Asia + Oceania
3
Zhang Qian (d. 113 BC) was a Chinese official and diplomat who served as an imperial envoy to…
Marco Polo was a Christian merchant from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in…
Captain James Cook was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to…