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America was discovered by many different explorers, most of them of Western European ethnicity.
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Most of them lived in eithe Portugal or Spain and some in England. There were also Dutch and Italian explorers.
Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortez, etc. (there were MANY impotant/famous explorers)
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I don't think they "desired" African slaves. At first many explorers brought back people from places they had visited on their voyages, but most of them died before the explorers could get the new slaves back to europe. So i don't think the African slaves were really targeted, it was just from where the explorers sailed to.
because monarchies had the most power out of the all the groups
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Most of the early explorers during the Age of Exploration came from Europe. Notable explorers like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and Vasco da Gama were from European countries such as Spain, Portugal, and Italy.