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Portugal is the first to launch an exploration. Prince Henry planned a mission around Africa to head to Asia so that they wouldn’t have to go through it -
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Prince Henry had two captains and they set sail to the new land without him -
Christopher Columbus began trading and exchanging things with other countries -
This man Bartolomeu Dias is the first man to sail around the south top of Africa and to explore it -
Britain merchants started trading along side everyone else and they created a connection with iceland -
Christopher Columbus started a journey to find the West Indies. He landed in America but thought it was Asia so he called the people there Indians. He sent voyages to gather the gold and silver to improve the Spanish economy -
Christopher Columbus used the native Americans as slaves and took some home with him to do his work -
Columbus was exploring and found an island that nobody has seen and claimed it -
He discovers New England and Canada -
Portugal found a sea route that people can use to sail to Asia so that people could get their easier -
Britain joined in exploring -
Portugal wanted to increase their trading so they set up posts on India to do that -
Juan Ponce de Leon was told to go on a journey and he found an island and was later called Puerto Rico -
France was looking for fur because they could use it for clothing an other things so they started to trade people for it -
France wanted to discover new things like everyone else so they decided to join them in exploring -
He was sent to get rid of ships that were exploring and to make sure that they stop exploring and would steal their loot -
France created new trading routes for trading -
He was sent to explore for France and to bring back information