Zoom–In: Explorers
What might primary sources tell us about the obstacles and achievements of European explorers?
What do you see?
2. What new people or things do you see?
3. Make a hypothesis about what is happening in this picture.
4. What do you think happened before this picture was taken?
5. What does this image say about the obstacles and achievements faced by people new to a foreign land?
Obstacles - What Native American group might have been encountered? - How did you come to that conclusion? - What affect did geography and climate have on the explorers? - What feelings might the explorers have had upon arriving at a new land?
Achievements - How did the explorers arrive at the new land? - What part did disease play? - What technology did the explorers bring with them?
Unknown. (c1897). Coronado's March - Colorado. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.