🚢English explorers sought new routes to China in the 15th century.
🔎Christopher Columbus believed he found a southern passageway to China in 1492.
🌍John Cabot explored the North Atlantic for a shorter northern route to China.
👑King Henry VII sponsored multiple expeditions to find new routes to Eastern markets.
🌏Roanoke colony became the first English settlement in North America, but it met an unfortunate and mysterious end.