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Around 1300 Europeans heard about Marco Polo's adventure in China, and other Asian islands. When Europeans read about this they thought of all the riches in Asis
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In the early 1400s, people in europe began to look to look to the seas and beyond. So they longed for adventure. Others wanted to spread christianity
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Christopher Columbous coloumbus led his first expedition westward.
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In 1497, Porteguese explorer Vasco da Gama found such a routeand sailes all the way to india
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King Henry sent Cabot on a voyage west.
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Columbous sialed to South America, later on a map maker labeled the "new" continent America, from another explorer named Amerigo Vespucci, and that name stuck.
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Ponce de leon he explored and settled in Purteo Rico. King Fernand gave him permission to explore north of Cuba.
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Pone de Leon set sail and ended up at Florida, he got the name from the spanish word that means flowers. They sailed to the east of the coast and thought the keys to the west of the coast. He found there was land perfect for exploring north of the Carribean islands.
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Spain was the most powerful nation in the world. They had huge tracts of land, began sending gold and silver back to spain.
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The remaining 150 colonists returned to Hipanioa.
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Hernando de Soto sailed with a military expidition from Havana, Cuba to the west coast of Florida.
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de Soto's soldiers soliders spent the winter in Tallahase Florida. In spring de Soto and his men crossed Georgia, throught South Carolina
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there was a lot of action in the southeastern United States. Spanish had possesion of Florida and started looking south ward