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People in Europe read of Marco Polos travel to China and other existing Asian lands.
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People in Europe began to look at seas. Some wanted to go on aventure and others wantd to spread Christianity everywhere. The age of Exploration and discovery had begun.
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Columbus led his first expedition west ward. He landed in the Bahamas, islands that he believed to be near Asia. Columbus reached South America, and later a mapmaker labeled this new continent "America" for another explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. Columbus persuaded the king and queen of Spain to support and expedition. Then Columbus gave them credit.
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Portugese explorer Vasco found a route and sailed all the way to India
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King Henry VII sent Cabot on a voyage West. The English thought that there might be a water route through the Americas that would lead north and west to Asia.They called this sought-for route the Northwest Passage.
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Juan Ponce de Leon was a spanish offical in the New World. He explored and settled the island of Puerto Rico. Then King Ferdinand authorized Ponce de Leon to explore lands north of Cuba.
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Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon was spanish and had his eyes on the mainland north of Flordia. He seen someof the Alantic coastline of this region on an expedition.
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King Francis I of France sent Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazano westward. Verrazano first reached land at North Carolina's outer banks. Across the narrow islands he thought he saw the Pacific Ocean.
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Hernando de Soto sailed with a military expedition from Havana,Cuba, to the west coast of Flordia. Then his soldiers went northward to a site near present-day Tellahassee, Flodia.
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France sent a colony under the command of Jean Ribault to North America. the colonists were Huguenots, or Franch Protestants. Sometimes thay were killed.
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A band of Huguenots, led by Rene de Laudonniere, settled at Fort Carolinw, on the north Flordia coast.
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Spain sent troops under Pedro Menendez de Aviles to Flordia. Then Pedro Menendez de Aviles built a fort at St, Augustine.
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He was the leader of the expedition, marked their landing by placing a wooden cross on the shore.
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Juan Pardo and Hernando Boyano led a small group of men to the South Carolina coast.
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