Explorers Near and Far
Where Did They Go and Why?
Traveling to the New World
Explorers traveled to the New World to find new land. They wanted to travel to find the shortest and safest route they could in order to reach land. They were in search new land and riches. Many of them would conquer land and make their travels for "king and country".
Jean Ribault
- French Explorer
- went to SC after Spanish had failed
- found a place to build a village and named it Port Royal, and a fort on Parris Island called Charlesfort
- ran out of food and their storage building burnt to the ground
- the trip was awful and they had to make their ship out of clothes and eat their shoes due to hunger
- Charlesfort failed
Hernando DeSoto
Juan Pardo
*Pardo tried to settle SC for a second time.
*He thought that our soil was good for growing crops.
* The settlement ran out of supplies again!!
* They raided the villages looing for supplies and food.
*American Indians burned down their settlement and the Spanish settlers ran away to Florida.