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He was looking for a shortcut to Asia/India
Instead he found the Americas
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Alonso Pineda set sail for Florida in 1519. Pineda was the first to map the coast from Florida to Texas.
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Cortez conquered Mexico and along with it the Aztec empire
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De Vaca was part of a crew of Spaniards led by Narvaez.
They set sail for North America on the seventeenth of June, 1527. Their main goal was to find gold for Spain. -
In 1528 Fray Marcos and Esteban went to try to find the 7 cities of gold (Cibola).
During the journey Esteban demanded food and women from the Zunis, so they killed him.
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After crash landing in Florida, De vaca and his crew built rafts and tried to sail back to Cuba, but after numerous storms they ended up washing up on Galveston Island.
De Vaca then ended up surviving for eight years among the natives with only three of his original crew members remaining. De Vaca was later discovered. -
Moscoso, and his original leader De Soto, set sail in 1538 in hopes of finding riches in America.The crew traveled through East Texas and discovered the Mississippi, but found no gold. This is important because Moscoso supported what Coronado said about Texas in saying that there is no gold and the land is harsh. This contributed to a lack of exploration in Texas for 150 years.
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Coronado was sent to look for Cibola (7 cities of gold). He went there and saw that Cibola was just an Indian village. He later was told of another gold city called Quivera. Yet again Coronado found an Indian village with no gold. This was important because after Coronado reported that there was no gold in Texas, the Spanish stopped exploring there for another 150 years.
