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Unit 3 Explores
StudyStack/Explores
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1519 | Mid-1519 -- Sailing from a base in Jamaica, Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, a Spanish adventurer, was the first known European to explore and map the Texas coastline. |
| Era-Age of contact | The era when Spanish and French discovery of Texas took place |
| De pineda | Alonso Álvarez de Pineda commanded a Spanish expedition that sailed along the Gulf of Mexico coastline from Florida to Cabo Rojo, Mexico, in 1519. He and his men were the first Europeans to explore and map the Gulf littoral between the areas previously ex |
| Cabeza De vaca | Cabeza de Vaca (born as Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca between 1488 and 1490, died between 1557 and 1558) was a famous Spanish explorer who todays remains remembered for the records of his disastrous journey to the New World, loss of his entire expedition, fa |