USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Coronado Expedition In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado began to explore the American Southwest. He found mud pueblos occupied by Native Americans. The Spanish set up bases and sent out smaller parties to explore. Coronado’s expedition was the first meeting of Europeans and Native Americans.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the 1500s, Spain expanded its colonial empire to the Philippines in the Far East and to areas in the Americas that later became the United States. The Spanish dreamed of mountains of gold and silver and imagined converting thousands of eager Indians to Catholicism.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first Spaniards to reach the Great Plains (the specific geography of their route is unknown) were Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes, and Castillo Maldonado, along with Estevan, an African Arab.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the early 1500s, Spain made a few attempts to explore Florida and the Gulf coast. Around 1513, Juan Ponce de Leon, conqueror of Puerto Rico, conducted the first reconnaissance of the area. In 1519 Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explored and mapped the Gulf of Mexico.