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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…
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
5
Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great and also called Cyrus the Elder by the…
Gaius Julius Caesar is remembered as one of history's greatest generals and a key ruler of the…
Attila the Hun was the Emperor of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of…
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…