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Explorations after Columbus

1536 map showing Magellan

1. maritime community of skilled navigators
2. Enterprise of the Indies
3. printing press
4. Columbian Exchange
5. discovered pathway
   • Magellan circumnavigation for Spain 1519-22
   • Verranzano to North America for France 1524
   • Urdaneta from Philippines 1565
   • Drake circumnavigation for Brit. 1577-80
6. colonization
   • La Navidad, Santo Domingo
   • Balboa to Panama, de Leon to Florida 1513
   • conquistadores and missionaries
   • Hernando de Soto to the Miss. R. 1541
   • Juan de Onate to New Mexico 1598
   • missions, encomiendas, ranchos