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During the early 1400s, people in Europe attempt to spread Christianity far and wide by traveling to distance lands through sea travel.
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A Portugese prince named Henry the Navigator urged sea captains to explore the coast of Africa so that he could get a route around the continent to the Spice Islands, where are/were near India.
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Christopher Columbus is a famous explorer. He was trying to use a shorter route to Asia, but insteaded landed in the Bahamas.
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Vasco da Gama found a route, much like the route that Henry the Navigator desired and sailed all the way to India.
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In 1497, King Henry VII sent John Cabot on a voyage to the West. Cabot eventually landed on the far northern Atlantic coast of North America, thought to be the island of Newfoundland.
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On one voyage in 1498, Columbus reaches another continent bellow the new world, later names America for Amerigo Vespucci.
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Juan Ponce de Leon explored and settled the island of Puerto Rico in 1509.
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Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon sees the Atlantic coastline of Florida on one of his voyages.
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King Francis I sent Italian Giovanni da Verrazano west.
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Hernando de Soto sails from Cuba to Florida.
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Pedro de Coronas marks the landing of Currituck Inlet with a wooden cross.
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France sends Jean Ribault's colony to North America,
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Rene de Laudonniere's band of Huguenot settled on the north Florida coast.
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Spain sent Pedro Menendez de Aviles' troops to Florida.
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uan Pardo and Hernando Boyano led a group of men to the South Carolina coast.
