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Colombus was looking for a water route to India and many riches the Spanish wanted such as gold. Columbus found the "New World", which is now currently North and South America. Here, Colombus found the Native Americans and was thinking to make them slaves, and did make them as slaves,as for they were very strongly built.
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Cortes on his voyage from Spain came on a mind-set goal to find gold. During his voyage, Cortes conquered the Aztecs found in Mexico including their leader Montezuma. After he conquered the Aztecs, Cortes easily took back six million tons of gold to Spain which probably encouraged Spain to explore more.
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Pineda was the first explorer known of drawing a map of the Gulf coast from Florida to Texas. This helped De Vaca and other explorers easily explore the coast.
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De Vaca's leader was Narvez, and the purpose of the expedition was to search for gold in Florida together.
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Coronado had been searching for Cibola and Quivera. Turk was his guide for Quivera, which he said was a city made of gold. Turk turned out to be wrong and Coronado put him to death.
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Moscoso's leader at the time was De Soto, who is also the man who discovered the Mississipi River. He died by catching a plaque near the river.
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Fray Marcos and Esteban went to explore with a goal of studying the land in the north. Esteban got killed by the Zunis for demanding their women and gold. Fray Marcos reports of seeing a very beautiful, grand city.
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De Vaca started building their own rafts from Florida to get back to Cuba, but apparently they washed up on Galveston island in a gale. We believe that De Vaca met the Karankawa,Couilhtecan, and Jumano tribes. De Vaca stayed there for about eight years
