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• Christopher Columbus

– Wanted to find route to China and Asia

• Trade/fortune

• King and Queen financed trip

– Queen thought trip could spread Catholicism

• August 3, 1492

– Sails to the Americas

– Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria

• Land in Bahamas, think they are in the Indies in Southeast Asia

– Named new land San Salvador, for the Holy Savior

– Named natives indios

• Wanted to colonize

• First colony: Santo Domingo on Hispaniola

• The King and Queen withdraw support

– Rumored to have been torturing and enslaving natives

– He never found a passage to Asia

• Spanish explorers looking for riches want to conquer the continent

• 1519

– Spanish explorer Pineda makes first map of Texas coastline

Hernan Cortes

• Cortes explores continent

– Searching for riches

Emperor Moctezuma

• Moctezuma thinks Cortes is a god

• Cortes takes advantage

– Fighting breaks out

– Spanish take over Tenochtitlan

Tenochtitlan

• Changed name of city to Mexico City

Panifilo de Narvaez

• Narvaez was granted Florida

• Could colonize these lands to Mexico

• Explored/stranded

• Died in hurricane on makeshift rafts

Survivors

• Land in Galveston Bay

• Encounter Karankawas

• Diseases/conditions- many die explorers and Natives

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

• 2nd in Command – Narvaez expedition

• Estavanico – First African in Texas

• With Natives – 6 years

• Traveled to Mexico – 18 months

Seven Cities of Cibola

• Cabeza de Vaca

– Told officials of Cibola

• Estavenico and Friar Niza sent to find city

• Estavenico killed

• Niza – rooftops of gold

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Coronado searches for cities of gold

– Doesn’t find them

– Met El Turco in Tiguex

– El Turco leads to Quivira

• Supposed to have riches

• None

• El Turco killed

Hernando de Soto

• De Soto leaves from Spain 1539

• Searches for Cibola

– Explores Florida & many southern states

– No riches

– Biggest southern exploration

Spain Establishes Missions

• Spanish begin to establish cities and Missions

– Other competition

– First city – Santa Fe 1610

– In Texas – Mission of Corpus Christi de la Ysleta 1682

La Salle

• La Salle travels the Mississippi River

– At mouth of river April 9, 1682

– Named land La Louisiane (Louisiana) after King Louis XIV

Colony

• La Salle asks the King for funding to establish colony

• Colony at mouth of river – strategic

– Keep track of Spanish

– Trade

– Good soil – crops

– missionaries

La Salle faces obstacles

• La Salle’s ships raided by bucaneers

– Colonists wanted to go home

• Past the mouth of Mississippi

Galveston Bay-Matagorda Bay

• land in Galveston bay – go on to Matagorda Bay

– Lose a ship and supplies from it

Karankawas

• French encounter Karankawas

– Friendly

– They have French supplies from shipwreck

– French try to battle natives to get supplies back

– Become hostile – they receive no help acclimating

La Salle looks for a way home

• Tries to find Mississippi by land – many die in these attempts

• Finally decides to go home

– He is shot on this voyage

• Colony is a failure

– Everyone (adults) killed

– 6 children - only survivors

Explorers Timeline

1492 - Columbus reaches the

Americas 1519 – Alvarez de Pineda explores Gulf Coast of Texas 1537 - Cabeza de Vaca

Reports on Texas 1541 – Coronado leads expedition into Texas

1542 – De Soto-Moscoso expedition reaches East

Texas 1610 – Juan do Onate establishes Santa Fe 1682 – Spaniards established

the first mission, Corpus Christi de la Ysleta 1685 – La Salle established

Fort St. Louis