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People in Europe started adventureing. Some of them wanted adventure, and some wanted to spread christianity, but most of all people were looking for riches.
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Christopher Columbus sailed to the new land with three ships. The ships were named Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
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In the late middle ages Europeans began to like spices. Most spices came from Asia, because they had to be shiped halfway accross the world on risky voyages they were vry costly. For hundreds of years, the Italian port in Venice controlled this trade. Some Europeans started looking for ways to bypass Venices hold on the spices. In Portugul a prince named Henry The Navigator urged Captains to go southward and see if they could find a way around Venice. In 1497-1498 it was done by Vasco da Gama.
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Interaction between the new world and the old world began. There were exchanges of plants, animals, and disseses from the Northern and Southern Hemesfere.
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Between 1508 and 1509 the Spanish explorered Puerto Rico and setteled there.
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King Francis I sent Italian navigator Giovanni da verrazanoto the west. He first reached the outer banks of N.C. Across the narrow islands he thaught he saw the Pacific Ocean, but he actualy saw the Pamlico. When he went back to report to the king he was occupied on the war. After that he stoped funding the American exploration.
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Between 1539 and 1540 the spanish sailed and traveled north into what is Tallahassee, Florida. They also crossed Gorgia, South Carolina, and the Western tip of North Carolina.
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In 1565 Spain sent troops to Florida.
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In late 1566 Juan Pardo, and Hernando Boyano led a group of men to South Carolina and kept moveing North West. This was the same rout taken by de Soto 25 years earlier.
