SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NORTH AMERICAN EXPLORATION
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gold in North America
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medicine in North America
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food in North America
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freedom in North America
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Detailed explanation-1: -HERNANDO DE SOTO explored the southeast region of North America for Spain, searching for gold, a suitable site for a colony, and an overland route from Mexico to the Atlantic.
Detailed explanation-2: -Inspired by tales of rivers of gold and timid, malleable native peoples, later Spanish explorers were relentless in their quest for land and gold. Spanish explorers with hopes of conquest in the New World were known as conquistadores.
Detailed explanation-3: -Juan Ponce de León was a Spanish-born conquistador who made it his mission to find riches, such as gold and the famed “fountain of youth”. He first came to the Americas with Christopher Columbus’s second expedition in 1493.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Spanish worked alluvial gold deposits in the Caribbean, Mexico, and the Andes (especially in New Granada). Spanish settlers located all the main silver-bearing zones of Latin America in the sixteenth century.