The documents discuss the colonization history and geography of South Carolina. Early European powers like Spain attempted to settle the region in the 1500s but faced issues with weather, disease, food shortages, and hostility from native populations. Eventually, English settlers established the colony of South Carolina in the 1670s. The colony developed an economy based on plantations and slavery. South Carolina's geography includes coastal marshlands and inland areas with many rivers that are flat and wooded for 100-150 miles.