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Which explorer is believed to have discovered North America before Christopher Columbus?

  • Leif Erikson

  • Ferdinand Magellan

  • Amerigo Vespucci

  • John Cabot

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Leif Erikson, a Norse explorer, is believed to have been the first European to set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
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