Americas

==== Norse colonization ====
{{Main|Norse colonization of North America}}
Around the same time as the Inuit migrated into Greenland, Viking settlers began arriving in [[Greenland]] in 982 and [[Vinland]] shortly thereafter, establishing a settlement at [[L'Anse aux Meadows]], near the northernmost tip of [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Vinland|url=http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/education/teacher-resources/oracles/archaeology/rmcghee/vinland|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101110020418/http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/education/teacher-resources/oracles/archaeology/rmcghee/vinland|archive-date=November 10, 2010|publisher=Canadian Museum of Civilization}}</ref> Contact between the Norse colonies and Europe was maintained, as [[James Watson Curran]] states:{{blockquote|From 985 to 1410, Greenland was in touch with the world. Then silence. In 1492 the [[Holy See|Vatican]] noted that no news of that country "at the end of the world" had been received for 80 years, and the bishopric of the colony was offered to a certain ecclesiastic if he would go and "restore Christianity" there. He didn't go.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Curran|first=James Watson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSxCAAAAIAAJ|title=Here was Vinland: The Great Lakes Region of America|publisher=[[The Sault Star|Sault Daily Star]]|year=1939|location=Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario|pages=207|language=en}}</ref>}}