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Famous explorers who discovered Texas and surrounding areas.Learn about from Columbus to the conquer of the Aztecs, from De Vaca's voyage to Fray Marcos and Estaban's journey, and Coronado's expedition to Moscoso's.This is the Spanish exploration.
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On this day,Columbus sailed from Palos,Spain,with three small ships,including the Santa Maria, commanded by Columbus himself. He was looking for a westward route to Asia.However, he discovered what is now Cuba.On the island, he met the Awarak Indians. When Christopher Columbus came back to Spain, he told the queen that the New World had tons of gold.This sparked the Spanish Exploration, and soon the New World was being discovered for this was important
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Columbus lands in Dominica
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Columbus left port with a fleet of six ships, sending three directly to the West Indies while leading the other three: the Santa María de Guía, the Vaqueños, and the Correo – to the Portuguese Porto Santo Island, his wife's native homeland.
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Columbus made a fourth voyage, nominally in search of a westward passage to the Indian Ocean. Accompanied by his stepbrother Bartolomeo, Diego Mendez, and his 13-year-old son Fernando, he left Cádiz, Spain
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Cortez set sailed for Mexico with 500 men and 11 ships.
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Cortes lands in Mexico where he meets the Aztecs.The Aztecs believed that Cortes is the fiery-red head god who came to rule them.
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The first Europeans to map the coast from Florida to Texas
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Explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was treasurer to the Spanish expedition under Pánfilo de Narváez that reached what is now Tampa Bay, Florida. The purpose of the expedition was to onquer lands and explore the southern coast
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Due to a gale while they were heading back to Cuba from Florida, De Vaca 60 others are washed upon the Galveston shoreline, half-dead and unconsious.The Kawankawas help the survivors by warming them up. The following winter, most had died,including the Kawankawas, which they believed the Spainards have brought a curse, but De vaca said the Spaniards would not be dying too, and they agreed.
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Later,he became a medicine man after performing the first surgery. In his eight years in Texas, he met the Kawankawas, Coahuiltecan, and the Tonkawas.
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Cortes conquered the Aztec's capital , Tenochtitlán, after he murdered the ruler Montezuma II. Since because of the tons of gold he found, he goes power-crazy because whoever has the gold, has the power
