By ship.
By way of the slave trade.
Columbus
An unknown Viking.
By boat on the Mayflower.
Who explored the land that connects the Americas and become the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who explored the land that connects the Americas and become the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
He was the first European to land in North America.
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
African American.
Exploration expanded the reach of the African slave trade by opening up new markets for enslaved people in the Americas. European powers sought slaves to work in their colonies, leading to an increase in demand for African captives. This demand resulted in intensified slave raids and increased the scale of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed Panama in 1513, becoming the first European known to have seen the Pacific from the Americas.