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Question | Answer |
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who destroyed the Incas? | Francisco Pizarro |
who destroyed the Aztecs? | Hernán Cortés |
who set foot on the Americas 500 years before Christopher Columbus? | Leif Eriksson THE VIKING |
who is the Americas named after? | Amerigo Vespucci |
who was the man who explored for China? | Zhang He |
who got eaten be cannibals? | Verrazzano |
who was Verrazzano's brother? | Giovanni da Verrazzano |
where did Christopher Columbus actually end up when he landed on "Indonesia"? | around the Caribbean |
Who sailed completing around the world? | Ferdinand Magellan |
did Ferdinand Magellan and his crew or just his crew actually make it around the world? | his crew |
why did Zhang He sail? | to bring more knowledge back to China |
why is America named after Amerigo Vespucci? | because Amerigo Vespucci figured out that Christopher Columbus was wrong and it was a new land |
why does't Leif Eriksson get the credit for finding America | because Vikings are bad at keeping records and they did not settle in the "Newfoundland" |
where did Christopher Columbus thought he found? | Indonesia |