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European people began looking to the sea. Some longed for adventure, others wanted to spread Christianity, and others wanted to look for riches.
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Price Henry encorages people to try to find new, more convenient routes along the coast of Africa to break the Indian spice trade.
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Columbus landed in the Bahama's, thinking it to be an island near Asia
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Vasco da Gama found a relitivly fast and safe route around Africa.
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John Cabot was sent by King Henry VII of England to look for a water route. It was called the nourthwest passage. The Europeans eventualy gave up on looking the passage.
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Columbus reached South America. Later, a mapmaker named the continent Americ, after after Amerigo Vespucci.
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Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish official who explored and settled Porto Rico. He was sent by King Ferdinand of Spain, who authorized him to explore lands north of Cuba.
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Ponce de Leon takes his ships and crew to sea and lands on the east coast of Flotida. They sailed down Florida and then back up it.
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Ayllon wanted to plant a strong colony for spain along the coast above Forida.
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King Francis I sent the Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazano west. He reached the Outer Banks. He thought he saw the Pacific, but it was really the Pamlico Sound.
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Ayllon led the collony to the Cape Ferar River. There, the colony died of because of diease and starvation. Ayllon died, and only 150 came back alive.
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Soto sailed with a military expidition from Cuba to Forida. They marched through florida, gorgia, South Carolina, and the tip of North Carolina. The Cheroke treated them with generosity.
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By the 1560's, the Spanish had taken control of much of the mineral rich lands of Mexico and Puru. This made Spain a righ country. Cuba and Porto Rico produced valuble crops for the Spanish. The Spanish kept their grip on Florida and continued south.
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France sent a colony under the comand of Ribaut to North America. The colonists were Huguenots (French Protestants). They atempted to setle in Port Royal, SC. The colonist gave up and returned in 1564.
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In the same year that Jean Ribault left, Laudonniere setlled at Fort Caroline. Ribault left supplies.
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Aviles was sent by spain and established a fort at St. Augustine. He captured Fort Caroline and Built forts throughout Florida.
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Coronas went on a mission, which is the equivilent of a Catholic mission trip, and wanted to land in Chessapeke Bay. The winds prevented it, so he landed on Albemarle Sound. After a brief exploration, they tried again to reach Chessapeke Bay. When winds held them back, the returned to the West Indies.
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Pardo and Boyano led a group of men to the South Carolina Coast. From there, they pushed inland on the same route de Soto had taken. The soliders built a fort in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Over the next few years, the Spanish abandoned these forts.