What motivated Spanish explorers to want to travel to
Texas?

The Spanish Colonial era in Texas began with a system of missions and presidios, designed to spread Christianity and to establish control over the region. ... The missionaries hoped to spread Christianity and the Spanish culture to native groups. Presidios were the missions' secular counterpart.

Explanation:

wood carving remains today the primary sculptural art form of the sub saharan continent. african art history shows the earliest wooden sculptures from the 17th c are attributed to the kuba, central zaire but the earliest surviving sub-saharan sculpture is a zoomorphic head found in 1928 in central angola.

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