Age of Contact

Time Line

• 1519 Hernan Cortes inspires other explores to head to New World
• Same year Pineda drew first map of Gulf Coast coastline
• 1536 Cabeza De Vaca arrives
• 1540 Francisco Coronado arrives
• 1542 Alvarado arives

Timeline (continued)

• 1598 Spanish explorer Juan De Onate travels to colonize
• 1684 La Salle arrives in Texas

Hernan Cortez

• Was a Spanish conquistador and explorer
• Defeated the Aztec empire
• Claimed Mexico for Spain

Pineda

• Was the first to be documented in Texas history
• After his long adventure, Pineda spent forty days repairing his ships
• Pineda was killed in a battle with the native Huastec people at the Panuco River, lukily his map made it back to Governor Garay.

Cabeza de Vaca

• One of four survivors of the 1527 Narvaez expedition
• He lived among the Native Americans for eight years
• He became a trader and a faith healer while on his travels
• He was transported to Spain for trial in 1545

Francisco Coronado

• His expedition marked the first European sitings of the Grand Canyon
• He was known as "Vasquez de Coronado"
• He was the Governor of New Galicia

Hernando de Alvarado

• 1540 Alvarado became captain of artillery for the Coronado expedition
• during the storming of Hawiku pueblo he saved the life of his commander
• while searching for buffalo, his command become the first Europeans to visit High Plains

Juan De Onate

• Explorer and governor of New Mexico
• He led Spanish expeditions to the Great Plains and Lower Colorado River Vally
• There are two schools named after him

La Salle

• explored great lakes some are the golf of mexico and the Mississippi river
• he claimed the entire Mississippi river basin for france
• he was murdered by an unknown person

Summary

• The age of contact was about how all of these explores travled through texas and there influences that they left there

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