If you mean why did Spain establish settlement at St. Augustine. The reason why was because religion, treasure, and colonization.
The main reasons were that <span>the
navigational tools were inaccurate, the explorers had limited knowledge of
world geography, and the navigators could easily become irretrievably lost</span>. These situations would be detrimental for the well being of the country since there was not a lot of money since they also had to fund other state related things and fight wars against each other.
Babylonia I’m pretty sure