Explorers

= ﻿Giovanni da Verrazano and the French =
 * == Giovanni da Verrazano was an Italian explorer working for the king of France. ==

He was looking for a shorter water route to China and the riches of Asia.
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 * == Verrazano was simply the first of many Europeans to be fooled and disappointed by encounters with what became North Carolina. ==

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= Hernando de Soto and the Spanish =
 * == Columbus did not find the road to China. ==
 * == By the 1520s, the Spanish had conquered native peoples from Cuba to Mexico. ==
 * == Hernado de Soto and six hundred soldiers began to explore the area that became the southeastern United States in 1539. ==



=﻿ Juan Pardo and More Spaniards =


 * == The second group of Spaniards explorers stayed longer ==