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Columbus finally gets permission fromn spain to sail to find a waterway to Cathay and find riches. He lands in the the Bahamas,thinking he is in India, and conquers the land, claiming it for Spain. His importance is that he is the one to start exploration in thwe western hemisphere
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Cortez lands in Mexico and then conquers the Aztecs and steals their gold and enslaves/slaughters the tribe and builds Mexico city right on top of the Aztecs city.He brings back 99 tons of gold and, with that, kick-starts exploration
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Pineda maps all fo the coast (from florida to west texas) and gives the map for Narveaz and De Vaca to explore
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Narveaz and De Vaca sail to Florida when their ships wreck,and they are stranded with no way to get back to Cuba.
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De vaca discovers texas when his makeshift barges crashes on Galveston. He is trapped in Texas for 8 years and encounters the Karankawas, Coquielitecans, and Jumanos
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They weresent to find the 7 cities of gold that De Vaca reported.Estaban is killed by indians and Fray Marcos reporets that he really "saw"the 7 cities of gold.
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De Soto was the original leader but died of a fever.Moscoso took over, found nothing, and confirmed Coranados report
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He searched for the 7 cities of gold and Quivera. His quide to Quivera was a Turk and he was strangled to death by Coranado for lying. He brought back nothing and reported that Texas is no good.