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Around 1300 people in Europe read the travels of Marco Polo the Cathay, China and other Asian islands.
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In the early 1400s people in Europe began to look to sail the seas and spread Christianity across the world.
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An Italian sailor from Spain sailed and found the New World (North America).
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In 1497, King Henry VII sent a great explorer John Cabot to the west hoping that they can find a rout to Asia north of the Americas and soon afterwards after John Cabot failed many others tried and gave up.
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He sailed from Europe and found a route to the Spice Islands in India.
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Around 1500 A.D. North Carolina was settled by Native Americans living in villages. Their economy depended largly on farming, hunting, fishing, trade.
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The southern part Americas was named in 1507 after Christpher Columbus found the New World in 1492. A cartographer Martin Waldseemuller was mistaken that the Americas were acually found by Columbus, named after Amerigo Vespucci.
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Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon planned to claim land for Spain along the Atlantic Coast for colonies in North America
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King Francis I of France sent an Italian explorer by the name of Giovanni da Verrazo to the west to the New World for a French voyage. He thought that he had reached the Pacific Ocean but landed on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon led a group of over 500 people to North Carolina and was planning on the Jordan River.
