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Christopher Columbus was the first European explorer to make permanent contact with America.

Christopher Columbus, an Italian adventurer, made his historic landing on the Caribbean islands in 1492. He had unintentionally "found" the Americas, albeit it took Europeans a while to recognize it. The Americas are the two continents in the Western Hemisphere: North America and South America, which also includes Central America and the Caribbean islands.

These continents were completely unknown to anyone on the other continents of the world at the time, which is why Europeans called them the "New World."  European exploration of the Americas in its early stages, including the major period of maritime discovery are known as the Age of Discovery or the Age of Exploration.

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