Question

Spanish explorers heard about _____ from Native Americans while they were in Mexico City.

Answer 1

The travelers of Spain heard about the seven cities of gold (seven cities of cibalo) from Native Americans while they were in Mexico City.

These rumored cities are a myth which was spreading the 16th century. The story of seven cities of gold may have a connection in a pre-Portuguese legend about the seven cities established on the island of Antilia by the 8th century Catholic campaign, or the capture of Mereda, Spain by Morse in 1150.

Answer 2

Answer:

the sevens cities of gold

Explanation:

The myth of the Seven Cities of Cibola, would have accompanied the Spaniards in the process of conquest and colonization of the New World. López de Gómara narrates that: "Fray Marcos and another Franciscan friar entered through Culhuacán in the year 38. Fray Marcos only became ill when his companion, followed with guides and tongues the path of the sun, for more heat and not moving away from the sea, and walked in many days three hundred leagues of land, until reaching Sibola. He returned saying wonders of seven cities of Sibola, and that the land had no end, and that the more to the west it extended, the more populated and rich in gold, turquoise, and cattle of wool was ...". ("History of the New West Indies").

Other authors maintain that the legend of the Seven Cities of Cybola, which motivated the frantic search, was originated by native references, and that the term "Cybola", used for the first time in America by Marcos de Niza, had been told to him by Estebanico, referring to the buffalo, and to the trade carried out with its products, in the region.

The castaways of the expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez of 1528: Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Dorantes, Castillo, and the African Estebanico, traveled during 7 years, the territory of the south of the United States. They recounted wonderful cities located in the north of New Spain. Cabeza de Vaca wrote "Naufragios" where he describes the long adventure on foot from the coast of Florida to the coast of Sinaloa in Mexico. In Naufragios, the Sevillian explorer did not mention Cíbola, Quivira and Zunis, perhaps because he forgot these "wonderful cities" or because after his new failure as governor of Paraguay in 1538-40 he repented of his own fantasies or those of his friends the Indians who, according to him, were people "very friends of novels and very liars".

Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza organized an expedition headed by the Franciscan friar Marcos de Niza who was carrying Estebanico as a guide. During the trip in a place he called Vacapa (in Sinaloa or Sonora), he decided to stay and investigate with the natives the secrets of the region, and send Estebanico to continue the exploration.

Soon Estebanico, claims the presence of the friar, for having heard stories of cities full of riches. Marcos de Niza assumed that they were the "Seven Cities of Cíbola and Quivira".

Estebanico continued advancing until he reached Háwikuh, Zuni town, where he found death at the hands of the natives.