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• I can identify the early Spanish explorers and areas they explored
• Identify the importance of 1519
FolderNotebookMap PencilsTextbook
Turn In: ShieldsHW: Finish MapsExplorer Time Line
10/6/15You Need
Learning Target
Explorer Chart
Explorer: Hernán Cortes
Date: 1519
Country: Spain
Area Explored: Eastern coast of Mexico
Conquered the Aztecs
Built Mexico City which became the capital of New Spain.
Inspired other Spaniards to come to the Americas.
Accomplishments:
Explorer: Alonso Álvarez de Pineda
Area Explored: Texas CoastDate: 1519
Country: Spain
Area Explored: Texas Coastline
Accomplishments:• Observed and mapped the coast of Texas• Voyage increased interest in Texas
Explorer: Pánfilo de Narváez
Date: 1527
Country: Spain
Area Explored: Area between Florida and Mexico
Explorer: Narváez Narváez had helped conquer Cuba in 1511.
In 1520, the governor of Cuba sent Narváez to Mexico to arrest Cortes.• Cortes’s men defeated Narváez and his soldiers.• Narváez lost an eye in the fight• Narváez was imprisoned by Cortes
Leads this failed expedition to explore the lands between Florida and Mexico 5 ships, 600 soldiers, & horses
Narváez divided his forces: ½ went in search of harbor (They took the ships and returned home.) ½ went to look for gold:• Spaniards got lost, attacked by Indians, found no gold
• Discovered that ships had abandoned them• Ate their horses to survive• Built flimsy boats and 3 of them landed on Texas island (Malhado=Isle of
Misfortune)• 80 explorers survived (including Cabeza de Vaca and Estevanico)• Narváez’s boat washed out into the Gulf of Mexico
Accomplishments:• First Europeans to enter Texas.
Explorer: Cabeza De Vaca & Estevanico
Date: 1527
Country: Spain
Area Explored: Galveston Island or San Luis Island area
Estevanico was from
Morocco, but sailing for
Spain
Accomplishments:• Lived with the Karankawa Indians for the next few years:
• 1st Europeans to see buffalo!• Worked as a servant, trader, & a healer (shaman)• Captured by Coahuiltecans and met 3 other survivors including Estevanico…
escaped• In 1536, almost 8 years after their shipwreck, they met a group of Spanish
soldiers who took them to Mexico City.• Reported hearing of “mountains to the north, where there were towns of
great population and great houses.” • Reported he had seen signs of gold• Cibola (Seven Cities of Gold) are a Spanish legend.
Estevanico:• First known African to
enter Texas.
Explorer: Fray Marcos & Estevanico
Date: 1539
Country: Spain
Area Explored: New Mexico & Arizona looking for Cíbola
Accomplishments:• Fray Marcos was an experiences & skilled explorer• Estevanico sent as a guide along with 300 Mexican Indians
• Estevanico ahead to scout the way and was killed by Zuni Indians.• Fray Marcos viewed city from afar and saw it shining and sparking
like gold in the sun.• Fray Marcos returned home and reported finding Cíbola.
Explorer: Vásquez de Coronado
Date: 1540
Country: Spain
Area Explored: New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, & Kansas
Accomplishments:• Sent to conquer Cíbola with 300 soldiers and 1,000 Mexican Indians
• Fray Marcos now serving as guide• Fought Zuni Indians but found no gold (only adobe village)!• At Tiguex, Coronado met the Turk. He told the Spanish about
Quivira, a nearby region that was full of gold.• Turk lied…only grass huts and corn• Tigua wanted the Spanish to leave their village
• Saw the Palo Duro Canyon, Grand Canyon, and buffalo• Claimed Wichita country for Spain.
Explorer: De Soto
Date: 1539
Country: Spain
Area Explored: From Florida to the Mississippi River
Accomplishments:• De Soto and 600 soldiers landed on Florida coast• Explored south-eastern U.S. for 2 years• First European explorer to reach the Mississippi
River.• De Soto dies
• Moscoso takescommand
Explorer: Luis de Moscoso
Date: 1542
Country: Spain
Area Explored: Mississippi River to Brazos River
Accomplishments:
• Continued De Soto expedition into East Texas
Explorer: Juan de Oñate
Date: 1598
Country: Spain
Area Explored: Rio Grande River to New Mexico
Accomplishments:• Led 500 colonists to settle and govern colony
around Pueblo Indians in New Mexico.• Celebrated survival along Rio Grande at El
Paso del Norte • Oñate claimed entire area drained by the Rio
Grande for Spain
Explorer: La Salle
Date: 1682
Country: France
Area Explored: Mississippi River and Texas Coast
Accomplishments:• Claimed all land around the Mississippi River for the King of France.• Built Fort St. Louis in Texas.• Gave the French a claim to Texas.
