FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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The Spanish explorers wanted it for the Gold part of the 3-G’s.
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The Spanish explorers new Cibola held wisdom.
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The Spanish explorers believed it was the garden of eden.
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The French explorer La Salle found it.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The fabled city was rumored to hold great wealth. In 1539, Friar Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan priest, reported to Spanish colonial officials in Mexico City that he’d seen the legendary city of Cibola in what is now New Mexico.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Seven Cities of Cibola are the mythical lands of gold that the Spanish of the 16th century believed existed somewhere in the southwest of North America, comparable to the better-known mythical city of El Dorado.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to legend, the seven cities of gold referred to Aztec mythology revolving around the Pueblos of the Spanish Nuevo México, today’s New Mexico and Southwestern United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -Seven Cities of Cíbola, Spanish Las Siete Ciudades de Cíbola, legendary cities of splendour and riches sought in the 16th century by Spanish conquistadores in North America.