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It divided the newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal
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He sailed to North America in search of a sea route to the pacific.
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A company of london investors received from King James a charter to found a colony in North America.
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French Jusuit priest Jacques Marquette and trader Louis Joilet explored the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi River
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New France covered much of what is now the midwestern United States and eastern Canada.