Why did the english establish a colony on roanoke island

Lost Colony also classified as the Roanoke Colony, was the first attempt at ascertaining a permanent English foundation in North America. It was installed in 1585 on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, United States.

England's Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to impassioned to the Roanoke Colonies who wanted to initiate a persistent North American adaptation with the ascertainment of plundering Spanish shipping, mining for gold and silver, classifying an entrance to the Pacific Ocean, and Christianize the Indians.

explanation:

these are the geographical features of the gupta empire.

1)it inherited the land owned by the mauryan empire.

2)one obvious difference between the two empires is that the gupta empire was smaller that the mauryan.

3)the gupta empire is located in the northern region of the subcontinent underneath the himalayan and hindu kush mountains.

the gupta empire, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries that contributed to hindu culture, in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.

this period was also known as the golden age of india