BUS 3800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hugh Elliot, John Cabot, Vikings
25 Jan 2017
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Welsh, english, and irish may have sailed to north america in the late middle. Numerous tales and legends around the land west byt none are substantiated. 1470- bristol seafarers claimed to have discovered a new large land to the west called. Hy- brazil but no definite documentary substantiation has yet been found of these journeys. The main stories were from fisherman who almost certainly fished in the great. 1492- columbus landed on the bahamas and other caribbean islands- an expedition sponsors by the king of spain. Did not prove that the world was a sphere. The first people to prove that they set foot on north america were the vikings. Almost certain that seafarers set foot on north america by accident. A little ice age occurred in 1200 ad to 1400 ad. This made the viking settlements in greenland no longer visible. It is thought that it did the same to the settlements in newfoundland and the.
