Spain Comes to America
This lesson introduces some of the first European explorers in the Americas and describes their
influence on colonization. Duncan and Izzy visit
St. Augustine, Florida, site of the first European settlement in America. They visit a Spanish fort
and learn about the relationship of the Spanish
with both the native Timucuan people and the
English who arrived later.
CD-ROM
worksheet for this lesson
What did the Europeans learn from Columbus' voyage to
the New World?
The Columbus Navigation Home
Page
Medieval
Sourcebook: Excerpts from Columbus' Journal
The Columbus Letter
1492: An Ongoing
Voyage
European
Exploration in the 15th and 16th century
Map from
1533
Map from
1562
Learn about some other explorers:
The Viking Network Web
Norwegian
Explorers and The
Vikings
The Age of
Exploration
Voyage
of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons
The European
Voyages of Exploration
Latitude: Early European
Exploration
Alvar
Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Estevanico (Stephen the Black)
Juan Bautista De Anza
Exploration
of the Northwest Passage
Samuel de
Champlain
Virtual
Museum of New France: The Explorers
The Voyages of Captain James Cook
Learn about what life was like for the Native, Spanish
and African people who lived around
St. Augustine.
Timucuan Ecological and Historic
Preserve (NPS)
Marion County
Facts and History
Fort Mose: Free African
Settlement
Florida Archaeology
Outline of Prehistory
and History in the Southeastern U.S.
Take your own virtual trip to St. Augustine, Florida!
Along
the Georgia and Florida Coast (National Register
of Historic Places)
St. Augustine - America's
Ancient City
Florida Kids
Drake's
attack on St. Augustine
1740
view of St. Augustine
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