Respond to the following based on your reading. (Note: Your answers should be either England or Spain.)
1. What country had established settlements and claimed land in North America first?
2. What country was concerned with exploring in the sixteenth century, due to a civil war?
3. What country was the most powerful country on the sea in the sixteenth century?
4. What country's sea captains found plundering other country's ships more profitable than
establishing colonies?
5. What country won the skirmish in the English Channel when the Spanish Armada tried to
invade England?
6. What country had settlements established in the Southwest United States in the 1500s?
7. What country had the first sailor to circumnavigate the globe to avoid being caught for piracy?
8. What country had an invincible amada of 130 ships?
9. What country's settlement of the New World was developed by its royalty?
10. What country's settlement of the New World was developed by private investors?

Explanation:

1) SPAIN had established settlements and claimed land in North America first.

2) during the 16th century Spain became the most powerful country in both Europe and in America

3) England was the most powerful country on the sea in the sixteenth century.

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5)ENGLAND won the skirmish in the English Channel when the Spanish Armada tried to invade England.

6) Johns River and established ranches as far west as Apalachee. Still, Spain held Florida tenuously. Further west, Juan de Oñate led 400 settlers, soldiers, and missionaries from Mexico into New Mexico in 1598. The Spanish Southwest had brutal beginnings.

7)England had the first sailor to circumnavigate the globe to avoid being caught for piracy.

8) The Spanish Armada was an enormous 130-ship naval fleet dispatched by Spain in 1588 as part of a planned invasion of England

9)Spain had settlement of the new world developed by its royalty.

10)England is the correct answer. Explanation: Jamestown settlement in the colony of Virginia was a colony set up by private company.

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