A later group of explorers gets credit for being the first people from the Old World to set foot on the Texas shore. There’s no evidence that the Pineda expedition came ashore in Texas, although it’s likely they stopped somewhere along the coast to restock their supplies of food and water. It’s the first map showing the land that became Texas. That map, which is still in existence, shows a long and curving coastline that we can recognize even today. A 1519 expedition led by Alonzo Álvarez de Pineda sailed west from Florida toward Mexico, mapping the coastline as they traveled. To the north, on the gulf coast, the focus remained on exploration. By 1519, exploration had turned to conquest in what is now Mexico, when Hernán Cortés landed on the Yucatán peninsula then pushed inland to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. New colonial cities on those islands soon became hubs for exploration of the mainland. Spain’s conquest of the Americas began on a series of islands in what is now the Caribbean Sea. The wave of exploration that began with Columbus’ voyage in 1492 didn’t take long to reach the land that is now Texas. Explore Texas by Historical ErasAge of Contact 1519-1689 by Katie Whitehurst
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