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He discovered the Grand Canyon and searched for the Seven Cities of Gold. I'm trying to remember what I learned in Social Studies class.
no he didn't for sure but he probably saw a reflection of the adobe brick
The Spaniards thought the seven cities of Cobola were Big pyramids made of gold, and then the insides walls were made of turquoise.
Because he was looking for one of the (supposed) seven cities of gold. CIbola is where he went and found it was nothing but buildings of hay and animal skins.
They didn't have a reason NOT to think there was gold. They wanted riches so they looked for gold and silver. The legend of cities of gold had existed for a thousand years and they didn't know geology so there was no reason to think there wasn't gold.