FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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Question
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Cortes
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Pineda
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Cabeza de Vaca
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Coronado
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cabeza de Vaca and his companions eventually arrived in Mexico City in 1536. They had traveled nearly 2, 400 miles over eight years in Texas and the Mexican borderlands.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cabeza de Vaca survived because of his wilderness skills, his success as a healer, and the respect he held for the Native Americans. The main reason Cabeza de Vaca survived was because of his wilderness skills.
Detailed explanation-3: -All of the craft eventually made landfall along the Texas coast from near Galveston Island to Matagorda Peninsula. The raft captained by Cabeza de Vaca came ashore on present-day Follets Island, as did another, leaving about ninety Spaniards and at least one African slave on soil of the future Lone Star State.