Before revision: Age of Discovery and the search for the Northwest Passage The Viking voyages did not become common knowledge in the Old World, and Europeans remained unaware of the existence of the Americas as a whole, until the first decades following the year 1492.
After revision: Age of Discovery and the search for the Northwest Passage The Viking voyages did not become common knowledge in the Old World, and Europeans remained unaware of the existence of the Americas as a whole, until 1492.