Explorers

  • Period: Nov 15, 1400 to

    Explorers

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Colombus

    Colombus
    he was looking for a route to india and a new route to asia but instead he found north and south america and it is important because without him finding that than we would not have north and south america.
  • Jan 1, 1519

    Cortez

    Cortez
    he conquered the Aztec Empire and it is important because he found a lot of gold.
  • Jan 1, 1519

    Pineda

    he maped the texas coast and it is important becasue without that we would not have a map of the texas coast
  • Jan 1, 1528

    DeVaca

    he went to find gold and went to texas and crashed and then built boats and went to mexico and he crossed the mississippi river and that is important because
  • Jan 1, 1528

    Fray Marcos

    discovered the Pueclo tribe called the zunis and killed them all
  • Jan 1, 1534

    DeVaca and Texas

    ge discovered texas in 1534 and with that we would not have texas
  • Jan 1, 1536

    Moscoso

    he is the nephew of La Salle and went to peru with him
  • Jan 1, 1545

    Cornado

    he discovered north americas south west and was a governer of Galicia