the spanish lands
Most of Mexico, Central and South America
expedition to explore Florida and lands to the west
expedition to explore Florida and lands to the west
Francisco Pizarro lead the occupation of the Inca lands. He was the great conqueror of the Incas, including Peru and Mexico.
Estevanico, also known as Esteban, explored present-day Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in the early 16th century as part of expeditions led by Spanish conquistadors looking for gold and new lands. He was one of the first Africans to explore the American Southwest.
When Francisco Vazquez de Coronado first explored these lands, on 1542. The first Spanish settlements on New Mexico was the San Juan de los Caballeros colony, founded by Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate in 1598.
Yes.
Spanish explorer Francisco de Ibarra (1539?-1575) named these lands as "a new Mexico" (literal translation: un nuevo Mexico) in 1563.
Since the last ice age (23,000 years ago) people began to inhabit the lands of present-day Mexico.The first civilizations to appear in Mexico are dated back to 1500 BC.The Aztec people settled and built their capital, Mexico-Tenochtitlan on the Mexican highlands in 1325.Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs in 1521, annexing "Mexico" as an overseas colony of Spain.Mexico, the country, began to function as an independent nation in 1821.
Before the European's began to explore the Americas, people were already living in them. Groups such as the Mayas, Olmecs, and Incas lived in these lands.
Many Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century explored Mexico and the Western US and claimed those lands for Spain. The most important of those conquistadors are Hernan Cortez and Fransisco Coranado.