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Texas Explorers

Texas Explorers. Warm-up. Double Bubble Map Hernán Cortés vs. Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca ( Frame of Reference ) : If you could have been a part of either of these explorer's expeditions, which would you have joined? Why?. Hernán Cortés. Years of Service : 1519-1521

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Texas Explorers

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  1. Texas Explorers

  2. Warm-up Double Bubble Map Hernán Cortés vs. Álvar NuñezCabeza de Vaca (Frame of Reference): If you could have been a part of either of these explorer's expeditions, which would you have joined? Why?

  3. Hernán Cortés • Years of Service: 1519-1521 • Country: Spain • Location: Eastern and Central Mexico • ImportantEvents: • Attacked and destroyedtheAztecemperor Moctezuma • Claimedtheterritorynowknown as Mexico and namedit New Spain • He tookall of theAztecEmpire’sgold and riches and sentthemtoSpain

  4. Alonso Álvarez de Pineda • Years of Service: 1521 • Location: Texas Coast • Country: Spain • Events: • FirstEuropeantocreate a map of the Texas Coast • Namedthe Rio Grande … "Río de las Palmas"

  5. Cabeza de Vaca • Years of Service: 1527 • Country: Spain • Location: Tampa Bay, FL, Galveston, TX, East Coastto West Coast, Mexico City • Events: • Missionwastoclaimtheterritorybetween Florida and MexicoforSpain • Shipwrecked in Galveston, TX • Slave tovariousNative American tribesfor 7 years … used as a shaman (healer)

  6. Estevanico • Years of Service: 1528-1539 • Location: Galveston to Rio Grande • Country: Africa • Events: • WasAndrés Carranza’sslave • TravelledfromGalveston totheRio Grande withCabeza de Vaca … served as aninterpreter (translator) • FirstAfricanTexas

  7. Fray Marcos de Niza • Years of Service: 1537-1541 • Country: Italy • Location: Mexico City to Arizona/New Mexico • Events: • DescribedCibola as being as large as Mexico City and glittering in GOLD • Served as Coronado’s guide tothe Zuni Pueblo, orSevenCities of Cibola • In 1541, he returnedtoMexico in shame!

  8. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado • Years of Service: 1539-1540 • Location: Texas • Country: Spain • Events: • A conquistador who lead anexpedition in search of Cibola and Quivira. • The “Cities of Gold” wereneverfound … instead, he found Palo Duro Canyon • ThisexpeditionledtoEstevanico’sdeath!! 

  9. La Salle • Years of Service: 1666 - 1687 • Location: Great Lakes, Canada, Mississippi RivertoGulf of Mexico, MatagordaBay • Country: France • Events: • Claimedalltheterritoryalongthemouth of the Mississippi Riverfor France • Nametheterritory “Louisiana”, after King Louis AND QueenAnne • Constructedthecity of New Orleans • Built Fort St. Louis in Texas • Assassinatedbyhis OWN MEN!

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