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Columbus was looking for India, but discovered the new world and it is important because the new world was america
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was to explore land in the name of Catholicism and the King of Spain
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Cortes discovered Mexico
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led several explorations to the coast of mexico
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was an explorer of the new world in 1527 and surviving Narváez expedition
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traveled to Texas for gold
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. Luis de Moscoso Alvarado was a member of Hernando De Soto's expedition to explore La Florida-today's southeastern United States-and to obtain gold and other riches from the native peoples of the North American continent. The army of an estimated 600 men sighted land on May 25, 1539, on the western coast of Florida near what is now Tampa Bay, and landed on May 30.
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Besides the overland expedition departed from Compostela, Nayarit, in those days the capital of the province called Kingdom of New Galicia, were accompanied by vessels that were followed by sea in command of Fernando de Alarcón and other smaller overland expedition organized by Garcia Lopez de Cardenas.
