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The story of...

Exploration Humans first lived in Africa.
Leaving Africa
They started to leave this continent in large
groups between 80,000 and 70,000 years ago.
Humans have explored the land, They went by foot to the nearby continent of Asia,
sea, and sky, and we are starting and later traveled by boat to Australia.

to explore space. Since our first
travels on land, we have made

new technology to let us sail ASIA NORTH
and fly. Distant countries can EUROPE AMERICA
work together because of The first people

world exploration. We might AFRICA lived in Africa. They SOUTH
slowly spread around
even live in space one day! the world. AMERICA

AUSTRALIA

Trade
In the past, people
traveled many miles by
land and sea to buy things
Ginger from other countries. Merchants
found new routes between
distant lands, and bought or
traded items such as spices. Vasco da Gama
These goods were then found the first
brought home to sell. sea route from
Europe to India in
the 15th century.

Cinnamon

Cloves

Reaching
the poles
The freezing North
and South poles were
unexplored until the
early 1900s. The first
explorers traveled
in sleds pulled by This ship carried
dogs and wore fur Christopher Columbus
to an island off the coast
for warmth. of America in 1492. The Santa Maria

American explorer Robert Peary, in 1909

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