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6. Which people were the first to explore North America? What were they searching for?

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6. Which people were the first to explore North America? What were they searching for?

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The first people to explore North America were the Paleo-Indians who migrated from Siberia to North America across a land bridge known as Beringia, around 15,000 years ago. They were hunter-gatherers searching for food and new lands to inhabit.

However, if we're talking about the first Europeans to explore North America, that would be the Norse, led by Leif Erikson, around the year 1000 AD, almost 500 years before Christopher Columbus. They were primarily searching for new lands to settle.

Later, in the 15th and 16th centuries, explorers like Christopher Columbus and John Cabot came to North America from Europe. They were searching for a new route to Asia to trade for spices and other valuable goods, but they ended up discovering a whole new continent instead.

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