WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Founded by Christopher Columbus in 1494, it was characterized by famine, disease and death until abandonment in 1498.

Detailed explanation-2: -Settlers landing on the site of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America.

Detailed explanation-3: -The city of Santo Domingo, in the current-day Dominican Republic, founded in 1498 by Columbus, is credited as the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the Americas.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a space of two years, however, in 1607 and 1608, the Spanish, English, and French founded settlements north of the 30th latitude that survived despite the odds against them-Santa Fé in New Mexico (1607), Jamestown on the Atlantic coast (1607), and Quebec on the St. Lawrence River (1608).

Detailed explanation-5: -In the early 1600s, in rapid succession, the English began a colony (Jamestown) in Chesapeake Bay in 1607, the French built Quebec in 1608, and the Dutch began their interest in the region that became present-day New York.