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c. 600 BC
 
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Phoenicians sail round the Cape of Good Hope and bring back the surprising news that the sun was seen to the north of them       
c. 310 BC
 
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Pytheas, a Greek explorer, sails up the west coast of Britain and finds beyond it a more northerly land which he calls Thule       
138 BC
 
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Zhang Qian, a Chinese diplomat, begins a spell of twelve years as a captive of the nomadic horde, the Xiongnu       
c. 126 BC
 
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Zhang Qian reaches Bactria and is the first to bring news of western Asia back to China       
c. 1010
 
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Thorfinn Karlsefni leads an expedition to north America, traces of which may survive in a longhouse at L'Anse aux Meadows       
1415
 
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A Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator, becomes fascinated by exploration down the coast of Africa and commissions successive voyages