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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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Those 2 countries are France and England
George Washington ........ he was the first president
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The puritans fled to escape religious persecution. Even though they fled does not mean that they believed in religious tolerance. Their life/government was a theocracy. (a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. ) So because they was a theocracy they fled because of their beliefs.
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