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Columbus tries to sail to India but ends up in the bahamas
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Cortes lands in mexico later to find and destory Tenochtitlan
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Pineda is the first to map the coast from florida to texas
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De Vaca and Esteban go to explore Pineda's map but get left by their crew then ship wreak on galveston it takes them a total of eight years to get back to Spain
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De Vaca and Esteban are found and return to Spain
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Went to explore Pineda's map and to search for gold.De soto dies
and his body is sent down the Mississippi river. They are the first to discover the Mississppi they thought it went all the way to china -
They go looking for Cibola (7 cities of gold) Esteban get's killed while in the city and Fray Marocos never go's to the city but sees the city from a distance
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Went with Fray Marcos to find Cibola but Cibola had no riches
Fray Marcos left and was never heard of again
Coronado later went to find Quivera a city that was ruled by amazon women and was made completely out of gold he got this legend from Turk, Quivera didn't have any riches either -
Coronado returns to Mexico and says that Texas has no riches harsh land and mean indians
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They return and also give a bad report about Texas
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He wanted to set up a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi river.But supposedly missed the river by 300 miles and landed on matagorda bay in Texas.He may have been looking for the Spanish silver mines in Arizona.He brought 300 people on 4 ships and set up fort Louie as a French colony.After supposedly going for help he returned to find oly 45 people still left alive.While La Salle was gone again small pox and a Kranwka massacre ended what was left of the settlement.
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First mission in Texs is established
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first east Texas mission established
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Guerrero-Coahuila Mexico sucess
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1st capital of Texas for over 40 years but was in Louisiana
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built to serve as a midpoint between east and west missions for supplies
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Built on top of La Salle's ruins and later becomes Goliad
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Built in central Texas, indians destroy the mission
