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he was looking for a faster route to india for silk and spice. christopher columbus thought that he'd found india, but istead he found north america and its inhabitants living there.
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cortes conquered tha aztec empire in 1521, he took all the riches and gold he could hold on his fleet. his conquering was important because, The collapse of the Aztec Empire was a major milestone in the formation of New Spain.
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pineda is the first person who maps the texas coast above where cortes had previosly explored. it lead other famous explorers to follow poneda's map hoping that they would find gold, or the 7 cities of gold.
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de vaca's leader was narvez and the expidition that took place was to help narvez look for gold, or the 7 cities of gold.
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during eight years of traveling across the us southwest, he became a slave, trader and shaman to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish colonial forces in mexico.
de vaca had shipwrecked with the remaining survivors on the other barges, except for narvez and his other men who were killed by un friendly indians.
