European Exploration: Spanish Explorers

European Explorers accomplished:

·    Exchanged goods and ideas

·    Improved navigational tools and ships

·    Claimed territories

Conquered (Conquistadors)and enslaved American Indians

Brought Christianity to the New World.

Carried  European diseases that killed millions of native peoples.

• Coronado soon realized that the Seven Cities of Cibola was just a myth.
• Coronado and his team came across the Continental Divide and the Grand Canyon.
• The expedition also brought the Spanish into contact with the Pueblo Indians.