which european country was the first to engage in exploration into the atlantic?
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Portugal, the western-most European country, was one of the primary players in the European Age of Discovery and Exploration. Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, Portugal took the principal role during most of the fifteenth century in searching for a route to Asia by sailing south around Africa.
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['1497-1514 Europeans see Florida for the first time. ... ', '1513 - In 1513, Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon became the European to explore Florida. ... ', '1539 - Hernando de Soto landed in the Tampa Bay. ... ', '1542 - De Soto died near the Mississippi River.']
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Explorer Ferdinand Magellan named the Pacific Ocean in the 16th Century. ... In 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, in the employ of Spain, began a journey across the Atlantic Ocean to seek a western route to the Spice Islands via South America.
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['Europe: Low Countries, Italy, Hungary, Spain and Portugal.', "North America: Spanish Florida, West Indies, Thirteen Colonies and St. John's, Newfoundland.", 'Asia: India, East Indies.', 'Africa: West Africa.']
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The first European to discover the Hudson was Giovanni da Verrazzano, who sailed past the River's mouth in 1524. It was not until 1609 that Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch and looking for the mythical Northwest Passage to India, explored the length of the River up to present day Albany.
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Ferdinand Magellan is best known for being an explorer for Portugal, and later Spain, who discovered the Strait of Magellan while leading the first expedition to successfully circumnavigate the globe.
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Most modern American citizens consider Great Britain to be their European "parent" country. However, by the time British arrived in the New World and established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, much of the continent had already been claimed by other European nations.
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Islam gained its first genuine foothold in continental Europe from 711 onward, with the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.
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Generally considered the first European to set foot on the North American continent, Leif got there nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus. Believed to have been born in Iceland around 970, Leif later moved to Greenland, where his father, Erik the Red, founded the first Norse settlement.
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The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is often credited as being the first person to have circumnavigated the globe, but the reality of his journey is a bit more complicated.
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The Spanish and Portuguese were the foremost of the Elizabethan explorers. The Italians and French were also showing interest in the New World. These European countries had gained monopolies on the Eastern spice trade and had gained great wealth from this revenue .
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In 1609, the merchants of the Dutch East India Company hired English explorer Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Hudson navigated along the North American coast looking for a more southern, ice-free route across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean.
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Found in the Mediterranean, and from Norway to north Africa.
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['\u200bFirst, European countries were seeking new trade routes to distant trading partners in the Far East, including: China, India and Japan. ... ', 'The Age of Exploration is considered to have occurred mostly with four European nations, which included: Portugal, Spain, France and England.']
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The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive. By 1471, they had reached the area that was to become known as the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast was so-named because it was an important source of gold.
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1519–: Leaving Spain with five ships and 270 men in 1519, the Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan is the first to reach Asia from the East. In 1520, he discovers what is now known as the Strait of Magellan.
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Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia and is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east.