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In the early 1400s europeans began to look to the seas and beyond
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Columbus led his first expiedition westward
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in 1497-1498 a porugese explorer Vasco da Gama found such a route and sailed all the way to India
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in 1497 KIng Henry VII sent cabot on a voyadge to the west
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1508-1509 he he settled the islands of puretor rico
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In the early 1513 Ponce de Leon
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in 1524 King Francis 1 of france sent Italian navigator westward
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The 150 remaning colonist return to Hispaniol
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Ribaults Huguenots attempted to settle near present-day Port Royal South Carolina
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Spain sent troops under Pedro Mrndez De Aviles to Flordia