In Europe, people lived in small villages. They didn't travel much. People didn't trade much.
Vikings, who are Scandinavian navigators, traveled North America across Greenland and Iceland. The place that they called Newfoundland was where today's Canada is.
Cape Cod - Massachusettes, vs. where Vikings finally arrived.
Because the climate was too cold and they had conflict with natives, they gave up and went back home.
Marco polo was an Italian journalist who traveled to China. traded for silk and other jewelry. He wrote a journal along his trip. He intrigues other navigators' desires to find a short cut to Asia.
Back then, many people thought the Earth was flat.
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