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Spain had established a permanent settlement in North America before 1600. St. Augustine was established as a fort in 1565. It was the first permanent settlement in what would become the United States.
When the first Europeans arrived in North America their system of government differed from that of the indigenous peoples. The Europeans used a hierarchy of government. The indigenous people had a cultural government.
Excluding the Vikings from Scandinavia and Iceland, the first Europeans to settle in the Americas were the Spanish and the Portuguese. Columbus arrived in the islands off North America in 1492, and he and others established colonies for Spain in the West Indies. Portugal, having established an easterly trade route around Africa, also became interested in the New World, establishing a colony in Brazil in 1500.
The first permanent Spanish settlement in North America was St. Augustine in what became Florida. It was established in September of 1565.