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Christopher Columbus established first colony in Americas on Hispaniola and named it Navidad.
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Columbus came back to find Navidad destroyed, then founded Isabella.
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Isabella also failed. They finally established the first permanent settlement, Santo Domingo.
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Juan Ponce de Leon was first spaniard to tough the present United States.
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa in Columbia trecked across the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean
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King Ferdinand awarded de Leon a patent to conquer the Bimini Islands in the Bahamas. It was believed that was where the fountain of youth was to be found.
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Alonso Alvarez de Pineda took an expedition to prove that Florida was actually part of a continent.
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Francisco Gordillo landed on South Carolina.
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Vessel of the Ferdinand Magellan expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.
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The king in France sent an Italian explorer, Giovanni da Verrazano, to search for a way to and through the New World.
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http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/jacques-cartier/videosHe was sent by Francis, the king of France, to exlore the northeast part of the Americas to search for the passage to the Orient.
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The French came to the New World so that they can find money and to find a way to the Pacific Ocean.
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Sir Walter Raleigh set out for the new world in 1585. He landed on Roanoke Island, a small island on the coast of NC.
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When the colonist on Roanoke Island supplies started to run low tensions started to rise. Raleigh and his mean ended up leaving after beheading the local Indian chief Wingina.
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In 1587 Raleigh and his men returned to Roanoke planning on peace but the indians had not forgotten what he had done. The Indians captured Raleigh and his wife and his Daughter and forced John white to return to England.
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John Whites intesions were to come back immediately after seeking help but a war broke out between Spain and England and his ship was ceased so that it could be used in the war. White wasn't able to return until 1590. upon his arrival he could not find anybody all he could find was a craving in a tree CROATOAN.
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He was credited for finding Quebec in 1608.
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Discovered a lake, and it is now named after him, Lake Champlain. The lake was named in 1609, and it is located on the border of New York and Vermont.
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Joliet, Marquette, and five other men rode canoes along the shores of Lake Michian and then went on to the Mississippi. Marquette and Joliet walked over to an Illinois India village and were reognized by Marquette's robe and they were welcomed. When they left the chief of the village gave them a calumet, a piece pipe, and let his 10 year old son to help guide them on their way back home.
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Juan Bautista de Anza II arrived in Monteray California.
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