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He led his first expedtion westward and landed in the Bahamas which he believed was near Asia
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Was an Italian living in England
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He was a Portuguese explorer and he found such a route and sailed all the way to India
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He sent Cabot on a voyage to the West. The English thought that there might be a water route through the Americans that would lead north and west to Asia
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He thought Asia could be reached by sailing west from Europe
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On another voyage he reached South America
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To support an expedition or trip of exploration
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Spain claimed many of the New World lands in the early 1500's Spain was taking control of much of South and Central America and many of the Caribbean islands
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He was a spanish official in the New World he explored and settled the island of Puerto Rico
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He set out with ships and crew. His expedition landed on the east coast of Flordia, Ponce De Leon derived from the spanish word for "flowers"
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Spain was the most powerful nation in the world. Spanish explorers had claimed huge tracks of land in the New World.
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He had seen some of the Atlantic coastline of this region on an expedtion in 1520.
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He lived in France and sent Italian navigator Giovanni Da Verrazano westward
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He led a group of over 500 men, women, and childeren to a river he called "Jordan" (for the Jordan River in ancient Palestine)
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He sailed with a military expedtion from Havana, Cuba, to the west coast of Flordia. From there his soldiers marched northward to a site near present-day Tallahassee, Flordia.
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France sent a colony under command of Jean Ribault to North America. The colonists were Huguenots, or French Protestants.
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Colonists gave up in 1564 and returned to France. That same year another band of Huguenots, led by Rene De Laudonniere
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Spain sent troops under Pedro Menendez De Aviles to Flordia.
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They led a small group of men to the South Carolina coast. From there they pushed north and west an nearly the same route that De Soto had taken 25 years earlier
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An expedition set out for Chesapeake Bay from the West Indies to set up a Catholic mission
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A leader of the expedtion, marked their landing by placing a wooden cross on the shore