Native Americans were the first to do so. Then the first Europeans came, the Spanish. After that the Americans started exploring farther west before attaining this part of the modern day US. The French also had a short lived settlement in Texas.
It may be a reference to Garcia Lopez de Cardenas or to John Weley Powell.
Fransisco Vasquez De Coronado
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∙ 9y agoSpanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore the Southwest.
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∙ 13y agoit was fransisco vasquez de coronado
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french
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Spanish
Spain.
Spain had visited and explored the land that is now the modern USA. This was well before the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine Florida. St. A. was settled approx. 1565 and is credited as the first permanent settlement in the US.
Christopher Columbus explored the new world.
I know they explored the pacific
Portugal explored the New World first
Spain.
explored the southwest US. he needed money to finance his war in Europe
explored the southwest US. he needed money to finance his war in Europe
It was first explored by Francisco Coronado!
Francisco Coronado
you have that worksheet too?
Pikes Peak in Colorado is named for him and that is the area he explored, namely the Southwest and Colorado.
He explored Portugal, a country of southwest Europe on the western Iberian Peninsula
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake
Don Juan de Oñate y Salazar and Francisco Vásquez de Coronado were Spanish conquistadores and explorers .who explored the southwest of the United States.
De soto , for Spain