Most soldiers died from disease. poor sanitation, battle wounds :)
De Vaca had understood that to survive in the land he needed to assimilate.
Explanation:
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was one of the first Spanish explores on the shores of Americas and one of the only our survivors from the Narváez expedition of 1527.
He was able to survive because he learnt to assimilate with the American natives.
He became a faith healer and earned the trust of the people of the lands and was able too hold out until he was able to get back to the Spanish in Mexico in 1536.
One of the most important factors as to why babylonian and sumerian societies were different was that they focused on different economic priorities, which shaped the cultures.
B) Kelper: planetary orbits
Kelper had a similar theory of Copernicus