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  2. Exploration of the Pacific - Wikipedia

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    Early Polynesian explorers reached nearly all Pacific islands by 1200 CE, followed by Asian navigation in Southeast Asia and the West Pacific. During the Middle Ages, Muslim traders linked the Middle East and East Africa to the Asian Pacific coasts, reaching southern China and much of the Malay Archipelago. Direct European contact with the ...

  3. Chinese exploration - Wikipedia

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    Chinese exploration includes exploratory Chinese travels abroad, on land and by sea, from the travels of Han dynasty diplomat Zhang Qian into Central Asia during the 2nd century BC until the Ming dynasty treasure voyages of the 15th century that crossed the Indian Ocean and reached as far as East Africa.

  4. List of explorers - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...

  5. List of explorations - Wikipedia

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    Pacific Ocean's Volta do Mar (Asia to the Americas) 1564–1565 Andrés de Urdaneta: Galápagos Islands, Rapa Nui: c. 1480 Tupaq Inka Yupanki. 1594–1597. Rediscovered by the Spanish. North, Canada 1574–1631 Henry Hudson: North: 1594–1597 Willem Barents: Siberia and Pacific coast 1649–1641 Ivan Yuryevich Moskvitin: Oceania: 1642–1643 ...

  6. Polynesian navigation - Wikipedia

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    The Polynesian triangle. Between about 3000 and 1000 BC speakers of Austronesian languages spread through the islands of Southeast Asia – most likely starting out from Taiwan, [9] as tribes whose natives were thought to have previously arrived from mainland South China about 8000 years ago – into the edges of western Micronesia and on into Melanesia, through the Philippines and Indonesia.

  7. History of the Pacific Islands - Wikipedia

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    The written history began when European navigators first sighted New Guinea in the early part of the 16th century. Portuguese explorers first arrived from the west and later Spanish navigators from the east, after crossing the Pacific. The island was given its name "New Guinea" by Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez who sailed its coast in 1545.

  8. Why We Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander ... - AOL

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    The holiday celebrates the historical and cultural contributions of Asian American and Pacific Islander people—an umbrella group which includes those with heritage or ancestry from East ...

  9. Ming treasure voyages - Wikipedia

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    Chinese ships continued to control the Eastern Asian maritime trade. [ 165 ] [ 172 ] [ 173 ] They also kept on trading with India and East Africa. [ 172 ] However, the imperial tributary system over the foreign regions and state monopoly over the foreign trade gradually broke down as time progressed, [ 174 ] while private trade supplanted the ...