EXPLORERS - Francisco Coronado - Part 1 (of 3)

During the century after Columbus's voyages to the New World, the English French Spanish built a massive empire in the Americas called New Spain. The Spanish rulers had three reasons to encourage exploration. They wished to expand and colonize the New World in order to increase Spain's friendships power skills , to spread christianity good will democracy , and to find gold, silver and other riches corn, wheat and rice new homes which they were convinced could be found in the New World. Francisco Coronado heard tales of cities filled with kindness lumber treasure , the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola. Coronado led an expedition into what is now the northeastern southwestern southeastern United States and Texas. The expedition totaling nearly one thousand men left Mexico in 1440 1540 1640 . After months of searching, however, the expedition found no treasure precious treasures gold and silver . Other Spanish explorers, who were known as sailors matadors conquistadors , explored North America, South America and the Caribbean Islands. The European
animals diseases cars they brought with them killed many Indians, often devasting entire populations who had no immunity against such diseases.