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Columbus led his first expedition westward
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Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama found such a route and sailed all the way to India
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In 1497 King sent Cabot on a voyage to the west.
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Another voyage in 1498, Columbus reached South America
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In 1508-1509, he explored and settled the island of Puerto Rico.
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In 1513, Ponce de leon set out with ships and crew
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In the 1520’s, Spain was the most powerful nation in the world
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In 1524 King Francis I sent Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazano westward
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In July 1526, Ayllon leg a group of over 500 men, women, and children to a river he called “Jordan”
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In October 1526, the 150 remaining colonists returned to Hispaniola.
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In 1539, Hernando de Soto sailed with a military expedition from Havana, Cuba, to the west coast of Florida.
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De Soto and his men spent the winter of 1539-1540 in Tallahassee Florida
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The Atlantic coastal region that is today part of the southeastern United States had seen a flurry of Spanish activity in the 1560s.