For the following questions, select the letter of the answer that arranges each set of sentences in logical time order. The first sentence is the topic sentence in each set. Long before the English permanently colonized Virginia in 1607, both the French and Spanish had set up colonies in the New World.
____ The first permanent Spanish settlement was finally established in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, forty-two years before the English arrived in Jamestown.
____ Long before Jamestown, in 1526, the Spanish created, in what is now Georgia, the colony of San Miguel de Guadalupe.
____ The French colonized Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida, in 1564, but it was destroyed by the Spanish a year later.
____ In 1562, the French established a colony at Port Royal, in what is now South Carolina.
A) 1, 2, 3, 4
B) 2, 3, 1, 4
C) 4, 1, 3, 2

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The sentences are arranged in chronological order based on the years mentioned: 1562 (French at Port Royal), 1526 (Spanish at San Miguel de Guadalupe), 1564 (French at Fort Caroline), and 1565 (Spanish at St. Augustine).

For the Following Questions, Select the Letter of the Answer