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Texas Explorers

What’s Important!. Texas Explorers. Cortes. Date: Feb, 1519 Country: Spain Area Explored: Eastern coast of Mexico Accomplishments: Aztecs welcome him because they though he was a god Conquered Aztec capital (Tenochtitlan) and made it the Capital of New Spain (Mexico City)

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Texas Explorers

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  1. What’s Important! Texas Explorers

  2. Cortes • Date: Feb, 1519 • Country: Spain • Area Explored: Eastern coast of Mexico • Accomplishments: • Aztecs welcome him because they though he was a god • Conquered Aztec capital (Tenochtitlan) and made it the Capital of New Spain (Mexico City) • Inspired more Spanish to come to America

  3. De Pineda • Date: 1519 • Country: Spain • Area Explored: Texas coast • Accomplishments: • Observed and mapped the coast of Texas

  4. Narvaez • Date: 1527 • Country: Spain • Area Explored: Area between S. Texas and N. Mexico • Accomplishments: • First Spaniard to enter Texas

  5. Cabeza de Vaca • Date: 1527 • Country: Spain • Area Explored: Galveston Island area • Accomplishments: • After shipwreck he adopted the ways of the Kawakawa to survive and lived with them for 6 years and became a Shaman • First to report buffalo and fertile lands in Texas • Passed along tales of cities with magnificent houses and lands rich in precious metals

  6. Estevanico • Date: 1527 • Country: Spain • Area Explored: Galveston Island area • Accomplishments: • 1st known African American in Texas • Reported news of an area called Cibola, filled with riches and gems • Accompanied Fray Marcos to ensure friendship with the Native Americans

  7. Fray Marcos • Date: 1539 • Country: Spain • Area Explored: New Mexico and Arizona • Accomplishments: • Saw Cibola from a distance and reported as a city of Gold • Took Estevanico as a guide

  8. Coronado • Date: 1540 • Country: Spain • Area Explored: New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Kansas • Accomplishments: • aw: Palo Duro Canyon, Grand Canyon, and Great Plains (Feared losing his way because the grass “never failed to become erect after if had been trodded on” • Found Cibola – disappointed because it was only a Zuni Village • Founded Wichita and claimed for Spain while traveling North to Quivira • Killed the Turk who told him gold was in Quivira when it was never there

  9. De Soto • Date: 1539 • Country: Spain • Area Explored: Florida to Mississippi River • Accomplishments: • 1st European to reach the Mississippi River • Died at the Mississippi River in Spring 1542

  10. Moscoso • Date: 1542 • Country: Spain • Area Explored: Mississippi to Brazos • Accomplishments: • Explored East Texas

  11. La Salle • Date: 1582 and 1584 • Country: France • Area Explored: Mississippi to Texas coast • Accomplishments: • Claimed all land around the Mississippi river for Spain • Went with 300 colonists to Louisiana in 4 ships, all were separated, they missed the mouth of Mississippi river and ended up in Matagorda Bay Texas • Built Fort St. Louis • Gave French a claim to Texas

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