Americas by the 1500s
… of the world is also known as the 'New World' and the 'Western hemisphere', because it lies west of the imaginary … of these explorers was Bartholomew Dias, who landed in the Cape in 1488. But it was only in 1498 that Vasco da Gama, … of the Na-Dene people, who generally lived in Alaska and western Canada. Some migrated further south and were the …