European Explorers
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- Reasons for Exploration - 3 G's
- God: Spreading christianity to the Native Americans.Gold: Riches, earn glory
- FIRST G - Gold
- SECOND G - God
- Pineda
- The first European to explore and map the Texas Coast
- Cabeza De Vaca
- Shipwrecked on Galveston Island, Karankawas provided food and shelter
- Explored Florida - Narvaez Expidition
- Told the fabled city of gold.
- Coronado
- 1st European to discover the Palo Duro canyon, The Grand canyon, and the Pacific ocean.
- - 1540- 1000 Men
- A failure to Spanish because no gold or silver was found (NO RICHES)
- La Salle
- 1685 arrived in Tejas - Matagorda bay with a ship called The Belle
- 1687 - 45 survivors of the original 400 left for Canada- La Salle killed by his own men.- Only seven survived the expedition.
- Maitlynn Walden
- Spanish became interested in Tejas again and built missions in East Tejas
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