USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -European colonization of North America expanded through Spanish colonists establishing themselves in present-day Florida in the 1500s and English colonists doing so farther up the East Coast in the 1600s.

Detailed explanation-2: -Spain was the first of the European countries to colonize the New World. People from France, England, Holland, and Sweden did not settle in the Americas until after 1600. Spain had the advantage of nearly a full century to stake its claims.

Detailed explanation-3: -It’s widely accepted that the first settlers were hunter-gatherers that came to North America from the North Asia Mammoth steppe via the Bering land bridge.

Detailed explanation-4: -While the Norse established some colonies in the north-eastern part of North America as early as the tenth century, systematic European colonization began in 1492.

Detailed explanation-5: -The European colonization of the Americas was the process by which European settlers populated the regions of North, Central, South America, and the islands of the Caribbean. It is also recognized as the direct cause for the cultures of the various indigenous people of those regions being replaced and often eradicated.