1. Mult idisciplinary Flipped Learning wit h
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AMOUS I TALI AN EXPLORER
2. Giovanni da Pian del
Carpine (c. 1180– 1252).
Franciscan f riar, he
was t he f irst European
t raveller in t he Mongol
Empir e Mar co Polo (c.
1254–1324),
explor er and
merchant , f amous
f or his t r avels in
3. Giovanni Cabot o (c. 1450–
c. 1499), explorer f or
England. I n t he summer of
1497, he crossed t he
At lant ic and discovered
t he mainland of Nort h
America
Crist of oro Colombo
(1451–1506). explorer
f or Spain. He Sailed in
1492 and discovered
t he “New Wor ld” of t he
4. Amerigo Vespucci (1454–
1512).Discovered t he Amazon River
in Sout h America. The name f or
t he Americas is derived f r om his
given name because he f irst
demonst rat ed t hat t he new land
discovered by Columbus did not
represent Asia’s east ern edge as
init ially conj ect ured f rom
Columbus woyages, but inst ead