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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.
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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.
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Pineda went to check on Cortes, but had his men arrested, this is important today because it shows how Cortes acted.
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Narvez and his men went to go map the gulf coast.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
