I know an answer is A for sure but i forget the others. A is an answer though.
Juan Ponce de Leon did exploration for SPAIN.
He was comissioned as governor of Puerto Rico by King Ferdinand. In 1513, Ponce de León led the first known European expedition to La Florida. He returned to Spain in 1514 and was knighted by King Ferdinand, who also reinstated him as the governor of Puerto Rico ( he got into problems with Diego Columbus - son of Christopher Columbus- who took away from him the government from Puerto Rico for almost two years) and authorized him to settle Florida
he French Catholic Church, known as the Gallican Church, recognised the authority of the pope as head of the Roman Catholic Church but had negotiated certain liberties that privileged the authority of the French monarch, giving it a distinct national identity characterised by considerable autonomy. France’s population of 28 million was almost entirely Catholic, with full membership of the state denied to Protestant and Jewish minorities. Being French effectively meant being Catholic. Yet, by 1794, France’s churches and religious orders were closed down and religious worship suppressed. How did it come to this? What did revolutionaries hope to achieve? And why did Napoleon set out to reverse the situation?
It would be the preservation and the dominance of Christianity in the region. Also it paved way to a creation of a powerful Catholic nations that will play a significant role in the history especially in the Age of Exploration and Colonization. Also it saved face of Christianity after the fall of Constantinople into Muslim hands.
