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The need for new trade routes to the East, the desire to spread Christianity and <em>competition between European countries </em>prompted the start of European exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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sophocles is an ancient greek writer who wrote tragedies such as "Oedipus rex" and "antigone."
Some early settlers were hunter-gatherers and hunted for their food and cloth, others were agrarian and farmed their food. Often times, these two type of societies would collide and, with the edition of trade, they flourished.