Gold and glory were out there for the taking ... or were they? Scraps of truth may have helped fuel the legend of the fabled city. Read more about the legend of El Dorado by clicking the link below.
Coronado’s expedition took him across most of what is now the southwestern U.S. While his expedition did encounter the Grand Canyon and other famous geological features, any villages they came across contained no gold. Most of the villages he came across were home of the Zuni people — skilled craftsmen, artists and farmers.
It wasn’t until Coronado had reached modern-day Kansas that he realized that the story of the Seven Cities of Gold was ato get him and his men out of the Native territory; the cities never really existed to begin with.
Beyond that, there was the fact that three kingdoms — the Muisca, the Incas and the Aztecs — had all been found to have wealth in gold and resources, which helped keep the rumors alive. There is also the possibility that Indigenous groups and Europeans used the rumor of El Dorado to keep interested parties out of certain areas. For these reasons, at the time, El Dorado didn’t seem like such an outlandish idea.
However, the more explorers failed to find it, over time, El Dorado became seen less as a place and more as a symbol; or “the next big thing,” says Aronson, adding that this symbol reminds him of Bill Gates and the Elon Musks of the world today. “There is this sense that if you just reinvent cars or reinvent taxi service or reinvent how we pay for things, how we write and communicate, you will become the richest person on Earth,” Aronson says.
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