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Question of the Week What can we learn from the results of our actions?
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Learning Goals • Sometimes people’s actions hurt other people. • Spanish people took over Mexico from the Native
Americans. • The Spanish people heard stories about cities made
of gold.
by Elizabeth Hines
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Many people love to explore. They like to go to new places. Long ago, people went to new lands. Some were looking for gold. Others wanted lands to rule. Others looked for places to start a new life.
Five hundred years ago, European explorers went across the ocean. They explored North and South America. They called these places the New World.
Some explorers looked for gold in the New World. This Native American object was made of gold.
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In 1492, the king and queen of Spain talked to Christopher Columbus. They asked him to find a way to India and China. They also wanted him to find gold. Columbus did not get there. He landed in the New World. He did not find much gold there.
Other explorers went to the New World. Most of them were from Spain. They fought with the Native Americans. They took over the Native Americans’ land.
Columbus looked for a way to India and China. Instead, he found the New World.
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The Inca and the Aztecs were Native American groups. They lived in the New World. They made things from gold. They used it for their art. They used it to make jewelry. The Spanish wanted their gold.
The Spanish heard stories. They heard about the Seven Cities of Cíbola (SEE boh lah). These cities were also called the Seven Cities of Gold.
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The Spanish took land from the Aztecs and other people. They called the land New Spain. This area is now Mexico. The Spanish wanted to look for Cíbola north of New Spain.
In 1539, they sent a monk to look for Cíbola. A monk is a religious man. His name was Marcos de Niza. Marcos and some explorers went to find Cíbola.
This old map shows where the Spanish looked for the cities of gold.
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Marcos’s group went north for many days. The land was hot and dry. They crossed deserts. They crossed mountains. At last, they reached what is now Arizona.
Marcos thought he was close to Cíbola. He sent his explorers ahead. After four days, they sent a message. They found something.
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The Spanish explorers looked for Cíbola. They thought the cities of gold were in Arizona and New Mexico. Today we know there was no Cíbola. There were no cities of gold.
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Some of the explorers came back. They were hurt from fighting. They found a city. The Native Americans there fought them. The explorers were afraid to go back.
Marcos wanted to go there. But he got scared, Marcos never went to the city. He never found gold.
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Marcos went back to New Spain. He lied. He said he found a big city filled with gold. People believed him. They thought he found one of the Seven Cities.
The Spanish sent a small army. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was the leader. He wanted to find gold.
Coronado’s group started out in 1540. He had more than 300 soldiers and 800 people. They carried supplies. The group also brought animals. They used the animals for food.
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The trip was hard for Coronado’s group. At last, he thought he found Cíbola. Instead, he found a small Native American group. They were the Zunis. The Zunis were not happy to see Coronado. They were ready to fight.
The Zunis lost the fight. Coronado did not find any gold there. So Coronado kept looking. He sent explorers to the east. They did not see golden cities.
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Coronado sent explorers to the west too. They found the Grand Canyon. They still did not find any gold.
In 1542, Coronado went back to New Spain. He had gone far away. He had seen new lands. But he never found the Seven Cities of Cíbola.
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People in New Spain were angry. Marcos had lied to them. He did not find Cíbola.
Today, people still tell stories about the cities of gold!
Did You Know? Gold
People first found gold about 6,000 years ago. Since then, people have used gold for many things. Long ago, people made gold art, cups, and plates. They also made jewelry. Gold was put on buildings. It was also used to make money.
People still use gold today. They use it for jewelry and coins. Gold is worth a lot of money.
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Talk About It 1. Where did the Spanish think they would find Cíbola? 2. Why do you think Marcos lied about finding a city
of gold?
Write About It 3. Make a time line showing the search for gold. Use the
dates listed below.
Extend Language The suffix -en can be added to some words. Sometimes the suffix means “made of.” Other times it means “to make.” Add -en to these words. Then make a T-chart with the labels “made of” and “to make.” Write the words in the correct places. wide silk soft gold wool hard
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