Which of these explorers may have reached America before Columbus did?

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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan

Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci

Leif Erikson
Leif Erikson

Hernando Cortés

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Leif Erikson is the explorer who is believed to have reached America before Christopher Columbus. Erikson, a Norse explorer from Greenland, is thought to have arrived in North America around the year 1000 AD, well before Columbus's voyage in 1492.