FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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a Spaniard who lived around the same time as Christopher Columbus, conquered Haiti, and became wealthy
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a Spaniard who lived around the same time as Christopher Columbus, conquered Cuba, and became wealthy
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a Spaniard who lived around the same time as Christopher Columbus, conquered Puerto Rico, and became wealthy
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a Spaniard who lived around the same time as Christopher Columbus, conquered the Dominican Republic, and became wealthy
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Detailed explanation-1: -Juan Ponce de León was a Spanish explorer. In 1508–09 he explored and settled Puerto Rico, founding the colony’s oldest settlement, Caparra, near what is now San Juan. He is also credited with being the first European to reach Florida (1513).
Detailed explanation-2: -Early Exploration In 1493, Ponce de León sailed with Christopher Columbus on Columbus’ second voyage to the Americas. He and his family settled on an island in the Caribbean named Hispaniola (Dominican Republic).
Detailed explanation-3: -While Ponce de León grew quite wealthy from his plantations and mines, he faced an ongoing legal conflict with Diego Colón, the late Christopher Columbus’s son, over the right to govern Puerto Rico.
Detailed explanation-4: -Born in 1460 into a noble family in León, Spain, Juan Ponce served as a page in the royal court of Aragon. He later became a soldier, fighting in the Spanish campaign against the Moors in Granada.
Detailed explanation-5: -On March 27, they had their first sighting of terra firma, and on 2 April 1513, they landed somewhere between what is today St. Augustine and Melbourne Beach on the eastern coast of Florida (Turner, 9). Consequently, Ponce de León is credited with making the first documented landing in Florida by a European.