Did the Chinese Discover America? -unit 7

Did the Chinese Discover America?

According to the book, Colombus was not the first explorer to come to the New World from the Old.  Evidence suggests that the Viking Leif Ericson crossed the Atlantic and visited North America in the eleventh century.

                                             video: taken from youtube 
 



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