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The age of exploration which lasted roughly through 1450 - 1600 is a term given to the period of european exploration in africa asia and the americas. Driven by a desire for inexpensive spices gold and other sources of wealth.
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The age of exploration which lasted roughly through 1450 - 1600 is a term given to the period of european exploration in africa asia and the americas. Driven by a desire for inexpensive spices gold and other sources of wealth.
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June 7 1494 Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.
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Although Spain continues to claim land in South America, a large region remains outside its empire. In the Treaty of Tordesillas, Portugal claims Brazil and issues grants of land to Portuguese nobles. European settlers move to Brazil to farm brazilwood and sugar.
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Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.
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Verrazano explores North American Coast.
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1539-1542: Hernando de Soto explores the Mississippi River Valley.
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Coronado explores what will be the Southwestern United States.
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: Spanish found the city of St. Augustine in Florida.
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To divide trading and colonizing rights for all newly discovered lands of the world located between Portugal and Castile (later applied between the Spanish Crown and Portugal) to the exclusion of other European nations
