FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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Question
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Each of the following was able to reach Texas, except ____
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Colorado
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Pineda
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Cabeza de Vaca
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Columbus
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -As early as 1519, Capt. Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, in the service of the governor of Jamaica, mapped the coast of Texas. The first recorded exploration of today’s Texas was made in the 1530s by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, along with two other Spaniards and a Moorish slave named Estevanico.
Detailed explanation-2: -With his exploration party reduced to only 80 or 90 men, Cabeza de Vaca’s motley flotilla finally wrecked on what was probably Galveston Island just off the coast of Texas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some of the explorers mentioned include Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, Fernando de Soto, and Rene Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle.
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