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Portugal sends a ship around Africas “Cape of Good Hope“ to Asia, where they establish trading posts and forts. -
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The Spanish sought to impose religious unity across their colonies. -
Christopher Columbus lands in the Caribbean, he thought he was in Asia, when they realized where they were, Spain began to send regular voyages to collect gold. -
Great Britain sends John Cabot to find a western route to Asia, instead he landed in the Americas where Britain would establish the thirteen colonies. -
Portugal conquered Socotra at the Red Sea and Muscat -
Portuguese ships set sail from India and land in the Spice Islands (Indonesia), later they would sail to china. -
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan opened a route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, which would later be the route for the first circumnavigation of the globe. -
Giovanni da Verrazzano a hired Italian pilot failed to find the correct place he was supposed to go, but in doing so he established a lot of Frances North American territory. -
Francisco Pizarro the conquester of Spain discovers and defeats the Incas while exploring western South America. -
They would claim most of Canada, and found cities such as Detroit, St Louis, and New Orleans. -
French explorer Jean Ribault explored coastal Florida, sparking tensions with Spain -
The Spanish set up a crucial settlement in the Philippines which helped them ship goods all over Asia and to Mexico. -
In three separate voyages, Martin Frobisher went on explorations to find the Hudson River, which was the new passage to trade with China. -
Englishman Sir Walter Raleigh established Roanoke colony in an attempt to create the first English settlement. The people of Roanoke would later disappear. -
A group of Englishmen founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement. -
Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec and explored the Great Lakes.