Spanish Explorations

  • Colombus's first voyage
    Jan 1, 1492

    Colombus's first voyage

    Goal: find a west water route to Asia/India Discoveries: New World, Gold, and Native Americans Area found: Carribean islands and the Bahamas Importance: started spanish exploring in North america because of all the riches he found
  • Cortez voyage
    Jan 1, 1519

    Cortez voyage

    Goal: to find Gold
    Conquered:Aztec empire & found 99 tons of Gold
    Impotance: sparked interest of many people to explore North & South America since he found lots of Gold
  • Pineda's Voyage
    Jan 1, 1519

    Pineda's Voyage

    Acomplishments: He was the first to map the Texas coast
    and made a report on it
    Outcome: his map led to more exploring on the Gulf coast
  • De Vaca's start day
    Jan 1, 1528

    De Vaca's start day

    Leader: orignally the leader of the expedition was Narvez
    Purpose: to help Narvez find gold
  • De Vaca's discovers Texas
    Jan 1, 1528

    De Vaca's discovers Texas

    What happened: first the expedition in Florida with Narvez ,the leader, with 300 men. They got left in Florida and built 5 boats to get back to Cuba. Unfortunately they shipwrecked on Galveston because of a Gale. Only 80 survivors and Narvez died. De vaca got seperated from the rest. Him and 3 others became indians slaves. They becamed medicine men but escaped and walked through Central &West Texas. They were found in Cali -eight years later & told stories about 7 cities of gold Years:8
  • Fray Marco & Esteban's Journey
    Jan 1, 1539

    Fray Marco & Esteban's Journey

    Purpose: to search for gold
    What happened: They discorvered nothing
    Report: told that they saw 7 gold cities larger than Mexico City
  • Moscoso's Expedition
    Jan 1, 1539

    Moscoso's Expedition

    Leader: orignally De soto but he dies
    Purpose: search for gold
    What happened: They discovered the Mississippi River
    Importance: gave the same report as Coronado Spanish didn't return to Texas for 150 years
  • Coronado's expedition
    Jan 1, 1540

    Coronado's expedition

    Looking for: 7 cities of gold
    2 cities: Cibola & Quivera
    Importance: Coronado stopped major expeditions for 150 years in Texas since he had a bad report about it