Way up the thread I had posted that *DeSoto didn’t make it past Texas.* and then DIRTYSECRET asked, "Interesting. Did Cortez?"
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4245328/posts?page=37#37
I replied:
The closest he made it to was Baja, California in Northwest Mexico.Then you replied to me:
Tenochitlan (Mexico City today) is not in Northwest Mexico.https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4245328/posts?page=54#54You might want to look up Cortez and the Aztecs.
King Charles V appointed Cortés as governor, captain general and chief justice of the newly conquered territory, dubbed "New Spain of the Ocean Sea".
Cortés made excursions all around the Caribbean and Central America
See also: Spanish conquest of Yucatán § Hernán Cortés in the Maya lowlands, 1524–25; Spanish conquest of Honduras; Spanish conquest of Guatemala § Cortés in Petén; and Spanish conquest of Petén § Cortés in Petén
Where did I say Cortex didn’t discover Baja? Point it out.