So you have probably already heard about Christopher Columbus, the man who went to the america's. Some of you may think he was the first one there but there was this viking called Lief Erikson that went to the america's before him. His intention was to go to India and trade spices for gold and stuff but he didn't know that North America and South America were there when he set off in 1492. He set off with three ships their names were Nina, Pinta, and the Santa maria. Another sailor went to the america's after Colombus and he was the first one to figure out that the land the Colombus found was not India but were something different.
People called this land America after Amerigo his name. There was also a sailor called Magellan. He wanted to go to India the way the Colombus did, through Chile and out the other way. So he went and couldn't find a way through Chile untill he was really close to the bottom and when he went there it was stormy and it took him over a month to go through it. It was named after him, The Straits of Magellan. But when he got to the other side it was very calm so he named it calm which means Pacific in Spanish. When he got to the other side he got to some Islands near China but that wasn't India. Then he got to the Philippians, that wasn't India either but when he got there one of the leaders of a tribe asked him to fight in a battle to help him but Magellan was killed by a poison's arrow, he died there and never got to India. But his Lieutenant finished his journey for him. They started with 5 ships and a lot of people but was left with one ship and about thirty men.
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