The Adventures of European Arriving to N.C

Europe/ Maro, Polo

Sep 15, 1300

People in Europe read of Maro Polo's travels to Cathay and Other Exciting Asian Lands. Polo wrote about ked many Eurpoeans to think about riches of Asia.

Europeans Branch Out

Sep 15, 1400

People in Europe began to look to the seas and beyond. Some longed for Adventure. Other wanted to soread Christanity far and wide. People Wanted to find riches. The Age of Expoloration and Discovery hand begun.

Herny The Navigator

Sep 16, 1478

Some Eruopeans began to look for ways to bypass Venice's hold on the spice trade. In Portiugal, a prince named Henry the Navigator urgedsea captains to explore southward along the west coast of Africa.He wanted someone to find a route around that Contientent tospice ilsands, near India.

Columbus

Sep 15, 1492

Columbus was an Itailian Explorer. born in 1451, the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. He led his first expedition westward. He had laned in the Bahamas, Also one of the Islands that he believed to be near Asia,They thought they were Indians. He Actully Landed in South America.

Carribian

Sep 15, 1497

Just Five years after Christophor Columbus landed in the Caribbean looking for a western route to Asia, a Venetian sailor named John Cabot arrived in Newfoundland on a mission for the British king. Although fairly quickly forgotten, Cabot's journey was later to provide the basis for British claims to North America. It also opened the way to the rich fishing grounds off George's Banks, to which European fishermen, particularly the Portuguese, were soon making regular visits.

1497-1498

Sep 16, 1497

A Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama found sound such a route and sailed all the way to India. Other Europeans had Different ideas.

Another Voyges

Sep 15, 1498

Columbus Reached South America. Later, A mapmaker labeld this new Continet and that Contient is called America.

First people Here

Sep 15, 1500

Native Americans were here first living in Villages. Their Economy was built on farming, hunting, and trade.

1500's

Sep 15, 1500

Soain was the most powerful nation in the world.

Spanish

Sep 15, 1513

Columbus, of course, never saw the mainland United States, but the first explorations of the continental United States were launched from the Spanish possessions that he helped establish. The first of these took place in 1513 when a group of men under Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the Florida coast near the present city of St. Augustine.

Giovanni Da Verrazano

Sep 16, 1524

King Francis 1 of Frnace sent Italian Navigator Giovanni Da Verrazano westward. Verrazano first reached land at North Carolina's Outer Banks. Across those narrow islands he thought he was the Pacific Ocean.