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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus' First Voyage
Columbus was looking for a western water passage to East Asia's spices and gold. Instead, he landed on an island in the Bahamas. He found strange animals, plants, and people, as well as some gold. He drew Europe's attention to conquering and colonizing North and South America -
Jan 1, 1519
Cortes' Voyage
Cortes' goal was to conque the Azteks and take their gold for spain. He suceded, and took 99 tons of gold back to Spain. He sparked the intrest of many people to explore the Americas. -
Oct 19, 1519
Pineda's Voyage
Pineda mapped almpost 800 miles of coast. This si important because it incouraged further expoloration along the coast. -
Jan 1, 1528
DeVaca's Voyage (Part One)
DeVaca's origanal leader was Narvez. Their purpose was to chart the gulf coast -
Nov 6, 1528
DeVaca Discovers Txas
De Vaca discovers Texas because he and his crew shipwrecked on Gaalveston Island. He was in Texas for eight years. the tribes he met were the Karankawas, the Coahuiltecans, and the Jumanoes -
Jan 1, 1539
Fray Marcos and Esteban's Voyage
The purpose of this journey was to find out if the seven cities of gold were real. Esteban, thinking that medine men held power everywhere, went into a Zuni tribe and demanded food and women. The Zunis were not happy about a stranger demanding those things, so the killed him. Fray Marcos told of seeing one of the seven cities of gold. -
Jan 1, 1539
Moscoso's Expedition
De Soto was the origanal leader, but he died from fever. He is creadited with finding the Mississippi River, though technically DeVaca discovered it first. -
Jan 1, 1540
Coronado"s Expedition
The two cities he searched for were Quivera and Cibola. El Turko (the turk) led them to Quivera. "Quivera" was really a village of grass huts. Coranado order The Turk strangled. The importance of the journey was that, since Coranado gave a bad report, the Spanish withdrew from Texas for 150 years.
