It is a debate as to who discovered America. Many think that Christopher Columbus discovered America‚ but that may not be true. Before Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean in 1492 it is believed that Bjarni Herjolfsson‚ a Viking‚ may have been the first European to see North America with his crew he went looking for his father traveling from Ireland to Greenland. He was led off course by bad conditions. He came to land that wasn’t Greenland‚ and he didn’t want to stop despite his crew wanting
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believe that Christopher Columbus was the first European ever to set foot on North America. That belief changed when in 1963 a group of archaeologists found 1‚000 year old Viking artifacts on the tip of Newfoundland‚ where it is known as L’Anse aux Meadows. Over 2‚000 Viking objects were found and they uncovered a Viking-like settlement. Leif Erikson is believed to be the first European to discover North America‚ almost 500 years before Columbus did‚ and is much known for his exploring skills. Around
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Culture Canada is a cultural mosaic‚ meaning that it’s a collection of several subcultures. Whether they are regional‚ aboriginal or ethnic. Because the two official languages are English and French and because they are used for day-to-day life in most parts of the country‚ Canada is like a melting pot with strong connections with the rest of the English- and French-speaking world‚ although this differs from region to region. For instance‚ some Government policies tend to differ from those in
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Lief Erikson The date of Leif Eriksson’s birth is uncertain‚ but he is believed to have grown up in Greenland. Also known as “Lief the Lucky‚” he was the second of three sons of a very famous Norse explorer known as “Eric the Red”. He established settlement in Greenland after being expelled from Iceland. According to the Icelandic Eiriks saga (or‚ “Saga of Eric the Great”)‚ Eriksson sailed from Greenland to Norway around 1000. Historians believe that he stopped in Hebrides and had a child‚ whom
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Baffin Island which he named Helluland or Land of Stone. From there he sailed south to Labrador and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence region which he named Vinland or Land of Wine for the wild grapes that were found there. He created a town at L’Anse aux Meadows‚ which served as the base of exploration during his time in eastern North America. He collected wood and other valuable things from the land and returned to Greenland. This was one of the many voyages by the Vikings. The latest evidence confirms
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sustain a robust military alliance that menaced its neighbors. IV. Indirect Discoveries of the New World A. Blonde bearded Norse from Scandinavia reaches North America. 1. The Vikings landed around 1‚000 C.E. 2. They landed at a place near L’Anse aux Meadows in present-day Newfoundland. 3. They soon abandoned the place and their discoveries were soon forgotten. B. Christian Crusaders rank high among America’s
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Block: B Socials9 Study Guide: Final Exam Multiple choice sections: Chapter six: 1-20 1. Coniferous trees: Coniferous trees have small‚ waxy and usually narrow leaves (needles or flat scales). ’Coniferous’ means that it is a cone-bearing tree. 2. Appalachian region: Some of the landforms found in this region are low mountains‚ flat uplands‚ forests‚ rocky cliffs‚ and many islands. Climate can be described as cool and wet for most of the year. Variety of vegetation that grows in the Appalachian
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with orders to take over the Ohio Valley‚ and get rid of the British who were in the area‚ which was done in 1752. ‘The following year‚ he had sent troops west of Pennsylvania where they built forts at Presque Island (Lake Erie) and on the Rivière aux Boeufs (Waterford). During the same time‚ Robert Dinwiddie‚ Lieutenant Governor of Virginia‚ was giving land in the Ohio Valley to citizens of his colony which inevitably led to the French and Indian War.’
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Rosana Abigail Jovel I n this chapter‚ we will explore our knowledge of another system called syntax. It is namely system because syntax is a system of rules and principles that allow us to combine words into large units. We know that words must be organized in a certain order in the sentence (just as affixes and roots occur in certain orders in words). In fact‚ the position of the word in a sentence is often the only way we know its syntactic category (part of speech). For example
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more or less fuel to the engine. The controls in the Translator allow adjustments under different operating conditions (idle‚ cruise‚ boost‚ and rpm) to allow the user to tune for optimum fuel efficiency or performance. The Translator also has an AUX adjustment for controlling fuel differently when a trigger wire is energized (to compensate for other fueling equipment such as N2O‚ Propane‚ or Alcohol injection) What’s New from v1.3 • MAF based tuning and RPM based tuning modes are split based
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