Spanish Exploration

By Pablo Carcano
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus' First Voyage

    Columbus' First Voyage
    On Christopher Columbus' First Voyage He Was Looking For A Trade Route to India and Cathay, but Found the Americas Instead This is Important Because Without it The Americas Might not Have Been Discovered For A Long Time.
  • Jan 1, 1518

    Cortes' Voyage

    Cortes' Voyage
    Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztecs, in Mexico. This is Important because if he probably would have been nice there wouldnt have been as much Aztecs dead.
  • Jan 1, 1519

    Pinedas Voyage

    Pinedas Voyage
    Pineda went to check on Cortes, but had his men arrested, this is important today because it shows how Cortes acted.
  • Jun 1, 1527

    Cabeza De Vaca Part 1

    Cabeza De Vaca Part 1
    Narvez and his men went to go map the gulf coast.
  • Jan 1, 1529

    Cabeza De Vaca Discovers Texas

    Cabeza De Vaca Discovers Texas
    Cabeza De Vaca and his crew where left behind from the expedition so they almost starved, so they built rafts to get back to Cuba but a storm blew them to Galveston, they where there from 1529 to 1534, and they met the Karankawas, Atakapans, and Jumanos.
  • Jan 1, 1538

    Fray Marcos and Esteban Journey

    Fray Marcos and Esteban Journey
    the journey of Fray Marcos and Esteban was to convert the Native Americans, but Esteban who was a medicine man for the Karankawas thought he could get some of the Native Americans things, so they killed him. Fray marcos though, while looking for Esteban found a village with Fools Gold in The Adobe and said there where 7 Cties of Gold
  • Apr 7, 1538

    Moscoso' Expedition

    Moscoso' Expedition
    Hernando De Soto's men where trying to find gold in what is now the southeastern part of the United States but when he died Moscoso took over, they tried finding a way back to new spain from there but went through Texas and he said it was Horrible.
  • Jan 1, 1540

    Coronados Expedition

    Coronados Expedition
    Coronados first expedition was to find Cibola, but finds a village of Zuni indians, and burns 200 people. Then Turk a Zuni tries to save his people by saying that he would lead the spaniards to Quivera a place which was made of gold and run by amazon women, once Coronado finds out it was fake he tortures Turk, The importance today of the journey is that they discovered the Grand Canyon, and the Palo Duro Canyon.