Original sentence: Palau islands were made part of the Spanish East Indies in 1885.Palau was discovered by Europeans on 28 December 1696 when the first map of Palau was drawn by the Czech missionary Paul Klein based on a description given by a group of Palauans shipwrecked on the Philippine coast on Samar
Edited sentence: Spain was the first European nation to invade the islands in the 16th century, and they were made part of the Spanish East Indies in 1574