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After about six weeks of sailing, Columbus and his crew found one of the islands of the Bahamas
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Divided the New World between Spain and Portugal
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Juan Ponce de Leon begins his first search for gold in Florida
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Vasco Nunes Balboa claimed the coast of the Pacific for his King and country
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Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet of ships begin their quest to travel all the way around the world
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Hernan Cortes begins his journey towards the Aztec capitol so he can conquer it.
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The Aztecs were tired of the Spanish's thirst for their gold, so they forced the Spanish to leave their city
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The Spanish lay seige to the city and eventually the Aztecs are forced to surrender
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Magellan died along the way, but one of his ships mangaged to complete the journey without him
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Sir Walter Raleigh lands on Roanoke Island and establishes a colony
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The Virginia Company of London recieves a charter allowing them to make a settlement
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John Rolfe learned how to grow tobacco from the indians and perfected it. This then became Virginia's cash crop
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Baltimore founds the colony of maryland as a refuge for fellow Catholics, who had to flee do the change of their national religion
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After having enough of a population to be taken seriously, North Carolina is given its own charter to make a colony
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it was made into a colony to be used as a buffer aginst attacks from the spanish and the Indians. it was founded by James Oglethorpe