The conquest of the Indians by the Spaniards led to a new revolution in forming Argentina. Juan Diaz de Solis and Sebastian Cabot were the first European explorers to reach Argentina and established many settlements during the 1500’s. Juan de Solis and Sebastian Cabot’s arrival sparked the initial conquest of the natives that lived there.
The earliest inhabitants to live in South America were Natives. They lived in Patagonia and were later affected by the conquest of the Spaniards. Historians say, in 1516, the Spanish explorer Juan Diaz de Solis became the first European to reach Argentina. He had landed on the shores of Rio de la Plata. (1) However, in 1527, historians also say Sebastian Cabot, an Italian, found the first European settlement around present day Rosario, and it was him gave the name River de la Plata, River of Silver, for the local Indians who wore silver on the river bank. (2) In 1536, Spaniards found a short-lived settlement on the bay. The earliest permanent Spanish settlements in Argentina were made by colonists who came over the Andes Mountains from Peru. During the mid-1500’s, they found Santiago del Estero, Tucuman, and other Northwestern mountain towns. The Spaniards established Buenos Aires in 1580. (3) Europeans were successful in arriving in Argentina and establishing settlements.
The earliest inhabitant s of South America lived all over the territory, noy only in Patagonia. They were put into reductions, killed, evicted from their lands, by the Spaniards. The northwest was inhabited, as well as the North east, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza and so on....
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