Arnie+and+Faith

Arnie and Faith
=Amerigo Vespucci= Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florance Italy in 1451 and died in 1512. Before he was an explorer he was a banker. Amerigo learns of the voyages to find a northwest passage Indies. He eventually wanted to explore! So he set of in 1497 and explored The New World (The United States of America) that very same year.

He wrote many stories about his explorations. A German map maker decided to honor him and used his name when he had to name the new lands on his map that the explorers had found.

=Coronado=
 * Coronado was born in Salamanca, Spain in 1510. He died in 1554. Coronado's real name is** **Fransisco Vasquez de Coronado. His father told him stories about the seven cities of gold where everything was made of gold and jewels. He wanted to go to the seven cities of gold to get wealth for Spain.** **Instead of finding the seven cities of gold he explored the Southwest part of America including New Mexico, Arizona,and The** **Grand Canyon with 300 soldiers and 1,000 Native Americans.**