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For all practical purposes, Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover the Americas. This being said with the understanding that the islands he landed on in the Caribbean Sea were and are part of the Americas. It is acknowledged that there is a semblance of a case that the Americas were first discovered by Lief Erricson. If so, they had no impact compared to the Columbus voyages.

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