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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus
columbus was searching for a safer and quicker way to inda for trade reasons. he acctualy ended upm in the new world, though he still thought he was in india. this is important because he found the new world. he didnt discover it first though, there we already people living there. -
Jan 1, 1517
Pineda
Pineda sailed from spain in 1517. he mapped the Mississippi River. he also discovered that florida was not an island. his documents were the first in texas history! -
Jan 1, 1519
Cortes
cortes and his men illegally ariaved in mexico and conquerd the aztecs. he claimed mexico for spain and found 99 tons of gold. this is important because he inspired further exploreing in the new world. -
Jan 1, 1528
DeVaca pt.1
his leader was Narves. the porpuse of his expodition was to collect gold. -
Jan 1, 1528
DeVaca pt. 2
DeVaca ship wrecked on galveston. the tribes he met were the kawakawas, jumanos, coahuiltecan. -
Jan 1, 1531
Fray Marcos
Fray Maros was a frair (a preist) and went on an exposition to find welth, and heard rumors of the 7 cities of gold and then lied saying he saw the 7 cities of gold. -
Jan 1, 1539
Moscoso's voyage
The purpose of the trip was to find gold after De Vaca mapped his voyage. The leader was De Soto and he ended up dieing at the Mississippi river. -
Jan 1, 1540
Coronado
Coronado's goal was to conquer the 7 cities of gold, but then found out that he did all this traveling for nothing, because there was no 7 cities of gold. He wanted to kill Fayer for lieing, but he was gone the next morning. Then came a guy named Turk that said that there was another cities that was just gold, everything was gold. So Coronando believed him, but then ended up killing Turk, because there was no other city.
