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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus' First Voyage
Christopher Columbus was on his way to India to get spices and riches. And he had a plan to sail a different route, but accidentally ended up on an unknown place. This place was The New World. If Columbus didn't find The New World, America might still be like it was a long time ago, and a majority of the Native American race wouldn't be endangered. Or maybe someone else would find us and we'd be totally different, maybe the tribes would conquer each other until one rules. We'd be different. -
Jan 1, 1519
Cortes' Voyage
Cortes set sail and landed in Mexico to later on conquer the Aztecs. This led to Cortes bringing 99 tons of gold back to Spain and it made him very greedy. By conquering the Aztecs, he also eliminated the Aztec empire to build a city on top of it. Cortes' trip also made people want to go to Mexico thinking that there was lots more gold there, but there wasn't. -
Jan 1, 1519
Pineda's Voyage
Pineda was the first explorer to map the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas. He also made a report of that whole area or region. By mapping the region, it led to others finding out more about the land further ahead of the region he explored. -
Jan 1, 1527
De Vaca's Start On His Voyage
De Vaca was first sent on a 300 man crew to help their leader, Narvaez, find gold. -
Jan 1, 1528
De Vaca In Texas
De Vaca's group (led by Narvaez) explored in a different system. But this system led them to get stranded on the coast of Florida. So they built barges and tried to sail somewhere, they shipwrecked on Galveston after many hardships and deaths. It took him 8 years of traveling through Texas before he met the Spanish again. -
Jan 1, 1539
Moscoso's Expedition
Moscoso wasn't the leader of the expedition, De Soto. They were looking for gold and explored from Florida to Texas because no one explored that area yet after Pineda made a map of that entire place. During the journey, indians though that De Soto was a god because he wore gold armor. He died at the Mississippi and indians became suspicious so they threw him into the missisipi. Moscoso reported bad things about Texas along with Coronado which confirmed that people shouldn't go to Texas. -
Mar 7, 1539
Fray Marcos and Estevan's Journey
Fray Marcos and Estevan set out on a journey to study the land to the north. Estevan was a guide for Fray Marcos who was a Priest.
Estevan went ahead of Marcos and sent white crosses as signs to him. Along the journey, Estevan gets killed by the Zunis for demanding women and food and Fray Marcos says that he saw an amazing giant golden city. -
Jan 1, 1540
Coronado's Expedition
Coronado was looking for the 7 Cities Of Gold or Cibola for Spain. When he got there, it was just an Indian village, but an indian called The Turk led him to another city called Quiver where everything was gold and there were beatiful women, That was also a lie. After his expedition, he was furious and reported terrible things about Texas that made no one want to make any other major expeditions there.
