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When did Christopher Columbus first land in the New World?

Retry Correct Incorrect Although CNN noted that Leif Eriksson and his Viking brethren beat Columbus to the New World by about five centuries, his first contact with the Americas in 1492 would nonetheless prove significant to the centuries of Colonialism that followed.

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When did Christopher Columbus first land in the New World?

• 1499
• 1492
• 1487
• 1519