The correct answer is Christopher Columbus.
Christopher Columbus is the European explorer credited with being the first European explorer to encounter the Americas. In his first voyage in 1492, Columbus landed in Hispaniola (modern day Dominican Republic). This encounter lead to several other European explorers setting out to colonize these new lands as a means to gain wealth.
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Perhaps the biggest question in world history is why the balance of power shifted so dramatically in favor of Europe and the West instead of the East in the 1800s. One major reason is that China was so internally divided that development of any one province economically or technologically was a threat to the surrounding emperors. (C.)
The New Deal<span> was the set of federal programs launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after taking office in 1933, in response to the calamity of the Great Depression, and lasting until American entry into the Second World War in 1942.</span>