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6. The most common map at the time projected Asia streched out, covering more of the atlantic ocean. He actually thought he found unexplored islands off the coast of Japan, because on the map he was near Japan.
7. Francisco de Almeida, but I am not the one who has the text here.
8. Bartolomeu Dias
9. Vasco de Gama
10. Leif Eriksson, the Viking who discovered America.