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Marco Polo travels to Cathay (China) and other excited Asian lands.
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In the early 1400's people in Europe began to look to the seas and beyond.
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The Prince Henry from Portugal urged sea captins to explore southward along the coast of Africa. He wanted someone to find a route around that continent to the Spice Islands, near India.
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In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean bkue. On his first voage he landed in the Bahamas.
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When Coumbus went to the "New World" He interacted with the people there and they traded food, animals, and diseases.
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The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama found such a route and sailed all the way to India.
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King Henry VII sent Cabot on a voyage to the West. The English thought that there might be a water route through the Americasthat would lead north and west to Asia.
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Columbus reached South America and later a mapmake labeled the new continent "America" for another explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. The name stuck.
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Around 1500 A.D. North Carolina was peopled by native American living in villages.
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Spain was taking control of much of South and Central America and many Caribbean isalnds, including Cuba and Hiuspaniola.
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He was the Spnaish official in the New World. He explored and settle the island of Puerto Rico.
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Leon set out ships and crew and his expedition landed on the east coast of Florida
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Ayllon took colonists to a site in present-day South Carolina. Many of the people got sick in South Carolina.Ayllon died in South Carolina.
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Soto sailed with a military expedition from Havana, Cuba, to the wst coast of Florida.
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King Francis I of Frace sen Italian navigator Giovanni da Verranzano westward. Verrazano first reached land at North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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The Spainards start focusing their attention southward after the 1560s.
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France sent a colony under4 the command of Jean Tibault to North America.
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Rene de Laudonniere settled at FortCaroline on the north Foida coast.
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Spain snt troops under De Aviles to Florida.
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In 1566 an expedition set out fro Chesapesake Bay from the West Indies to set up a Catholic mission.
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Pardo and Boyano led a small group of men to the South Carolina coast and from there they pushed north and west on nearly the same route that de soto had taken 25 years earlier
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