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Columbus was looking for a route to Asia by sea, but he found the Americas instead. The fact that columbus found the Americas is important because it started exploration and settleing in the Americas
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Cortés conquered the modern day mexico area and this caused more explorers to come to the new world in search of gold and glory
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Pineda was the firtst explorer to map the coast from Texas to Florida
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The leder was Narves and they were mapping the coast
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DeVaca landed in galveston by a storm washing them ashore he was in Texas for eight ears
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frey marcos and esteban were supposed to look for the 7 cities of gold, frey marcos said he saw them and esteban found a zuni tribe. when esteban found the tribe he demanded women, food, and riches and the zunis killed him.
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Coronado went searching for the 7 cities of gold but found an adobe village. When coronado went to the vilage he started killing people and the zuni indians sent out a slave named turk. when turk told the spainards of a gold cities run by amazon women and every thing was gold he set out. once there, he found it to be another lie and killed turk and tortured indians. Coronado was seen as a failure, but we today see him as a sucess because he found the grande canyon and the Palo duro canyon
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hernado was the leader of his expidition but died and moscoso be came the leader their goal was to find a land route back to ne spain after crashing ashore
