-
People of Europenread of Marco Polo's travels to Cathy (China) and and other exciting Asian inslands.
-
People in Europe began to look to the seas and beyond. They longed for adventure. They wanted to also spread Christianity.
-
Prince Henry the navigator from Portugal he urged sea captains to explore Southward along the coast of Africa
-
Columbus led his first expedition westward. He sailed the ocean blue. He arrived in the Bahamas and thought he was in Asia, and called them Indians.
-
1497-1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama found such a route and sailed all the way to India.
-
King Henry VII 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.
-
1497-1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama found such a route and sailed all the way to India.
-
Columbus reached South American.
-
Juan Ponce de Leon explored and settled the island of
puerto Rico. Taking notice back Spain, King Ferdinand authorized ponce de Leon to explore lands north of Cuba. -
Ponce da Leon set out with ships and crew.
his expectidiion landed on the east coast of Florida, a name Ponce da Leon derived from the Spanish word for "flower" . -
Spain was the most powerful nationnin the world.
-
King Francis I of France sent Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazano westward looking for the Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.
-
In July 1526, Ayllon led a groupp of over 500 men, women, and children to river he called 'Jordan' (for the Jordan River in ancient Palestine).
-
Herdando de Soto sailed with a millitary expedition from Havana, Cuba, to west coast of Florida.
-
de Soto's soldiers marched norhtward to a site near present day Tallahasse, Florida.
-
The Atlantic coastal region that is today part of the southeastern US had seen a flurry of Spanish activity in the1560's
-
France sent a colony under the command of Jean Ribault to North America.
-
Ribault's Huguenots attempted to settle near present day Port Royal, South Carolina, in April 1562.
-
To Spanish officials, the French fort seemed a direct threat. In 1565 Spain sent troops under Pedro Menendez de Aviles to Florida.
-
In late 1566, Juan Pardo and Hernando Boyano led a small group of men to the South Carolina coast. From there, they pushed north and west on nearly the same route that de Soto had taken 25 taken years earlier.
