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Columbus was looking for route to Asia for trading spices and silk. He thought he had landed in Asia, but he really discovered the new world.
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Cortes came to tenochtitlan, the capitol of the Aztecs, and conquered them and built Mexico City over it.
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Pineda was the first to map Florida to Texas and he may have discovered the Rio Grande.
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De Vaca set out with Narvez.
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He was the first to wright about texas. He preformed the first surgery in texas by moving an arrow. He became a medicine man.
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Told a tale of a city of gold. They went to find the cities of gold. Fray Marcos lied of seeing one of the cities of gold. They were unsuccessful.
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He exlored the states looking for the cities of gold. He also looked for cibola. He later looked for quevara.
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He discovered the mississippi river.