• Spain took credit for Columbus’s discovery with the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 that split up the “heathen lands” of the New World with Portugal
• Portugal had land in Africa, Asia, and areas that are now Brazil
• Spanish conquistadores or conquers explored the Americas for God, gold, and glory in the 1500s
• Vasco Nuñez Balboa found the Pacific Ocean in 1513
• Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate the globe during his travels from 1519 to 1522
• Juan Ponce de León went to Florida for gold in 1513 and 1521 but was killed by an Indian arrow
• Francisco Coronado explored Arizona and New Mexico reaching Kansa for golden cities, but only found adobe villages o He found the Grand Canyon and buffalo