Exploration (1 ene 1500 año – 1 ene 1599 año)

Descripción:

1513 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses isthmus of Panama, sees Pacific Ocean.

1513 – Juan Ponce de León defeats Tlaxcala, a small state neighboring the Aztec Empire.

1520s – Spanish begin conquest of Maya civilization.

1521 – Hernán Cortés destroys the Aztec empire.

1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano, working for France, explores coastline from present-day Maine to North Carolina.

1542 – Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River, strengthening Spanish claims to the interior of North America.

1565 – Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founds St. Augustine, Florida the first Spanish settlement in the New World, and is the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States.

1570s – Iroquois Confederacy founded.

1587 – Sir Walter Raleigh founds Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in the New World.

1590 – Roanoke Colony found deserted.