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_____ ______ ___ _____	right to find and take
(1460?-1521) was a ________	the island of _______
explorer and _________	(in the Bahamas); he
who was the first_________	also began searching
to set foot in _________.	for this fountain. He sailed
*JUAN PONCE DE LEON	from Puerto Rico on
	March 3, 1513, with three
*SPANISH	ships, the ______ ______,
	the _________, and the
*SOLDIER	____ ___________,
	and about 200 men.
*EUROPEAN	*BIMINI
*FLORIDA	*SANTA MARIA
He also established the
_______ European settlement	*SANTIAGO
in ________ _____ and
discovered the _____	*SAN CRISTOBAL
_______ (a current in	After stops at Grand
the Atlantic Ocean).	Turk Island and San
*OLDEST	Salvador, they reached
	the east coast of Florida
*PUERTO RICO	(St. Augustine) in April 1513.
	Ponce de Leon named
*GULF STREAM	the land "Pascua de Florida"
He was also searching	(_______ ___ _________)
for the legendary ________	because they first spotted
___ ______ and other riches.	land on April 2, 1513,
*FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH	Palm Sunday. He then
	claimed the land for ______.
He was born in ____________,	He explored the state
Spain around 1460. In	between 1513 and 1521.
his younger years he	*FEAST OF FLOWERS
served as a _______
and earned the nickname	*SPAIN
"_____ ________".
*SANTERVAS	They left on April 8,
	heading south in the
*SQUIRE	warm current now known
	as the Gulf Stream.
*POOR KNIGHT	This oceanic current
From that day forward	would become very
he trained himself in	important for Spanish
the art of _________.	trips from Europe to America.
Ponce de Leon later fought	On the return trip, a ______
________ in southern	broke out between Ponce
Spain in the early 1490's.	de Leon's men and _______
*WARFARE	Americans in southern
	Florida.
*MUSLIMS	*FIGHT
He sailed on ___________
__________' second expedition	*NATIVE
to the Americas in 1493.	They sailed to Cuba,
Ponce de Leon did not	then headed north, again
return to Spain with	trying to find Bimini
Columbus; he stayed in	(but instead, finding
Santo Domingo where	Andros Island).
today it is known as the
__________ _________.	After returning to Puerto
*CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS	Rico, Ponce de Leon
	resumed fighting with
*DOMINICAN REPUBLIC	the Native Americans
There he became a military	(putting down their
__________ and a deputy	rebellions against Spanish
__________.	rule). He returned to
*COMMANDER	Spain and was named
	a _________ _________
*GOVERNOR	by the King of Spain on
He later heard of ______	September 27, 1514,
in the neighboring island	and again sailed to
of Borinquen known as	Puerto Rico to search
________ _____ and	for the elusive Bimini.
conquered the island,	*CAPTAIN GENERAL
claiming it for Spain.	His last expedition was
He was then appointed	another search for
governor of this island.	Bimini in 1521. His
*GOLD	force of 200 men landed
	on the west coast
*PUERTO RICO	of Florida, but were
Due to his extreme ________	met by the ________
to Native Americans, he	_________, who _______
was removed from office	many of the men with
in 1511.	arrows, including Ponce
*BRUTALITY	de Leon. Ponce de
Ponce de Leon begged	Leon later died in
and persuaded the king	Havana, Cuba, from this
to grant him men and	________ (in July, 1521).
ships to search for the	*CALUSA INDIANS
infamous "fountain of
youth" (a legendary	*WOUNDED
spring that gave people
_________ _____ and	*WOUND
_______).	He is buried in San Juan,
*ETERNAL LIFE	Puerto Rico. Even with
	all his discoveries he
*HEALTH	was never able to find
He was then given the	the "fountain of youth".

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