Map Trivia
Regions of Texas
Historical Figures
Spanish Settlements
Random Trivia (worth 2x)
100
What is the capital of Texas?
Austin
100
Driest region
Mountains and Basins
100
Priest who convinced the Spanish to keep building missions
Father Francisco Hidalgo
100
What is a vaquero and a fresco?
Cowboy and mural/painting
100
Reasons for exploration
God, Gold, Glory
200
Name ALL of the states around Texas
New Mexico, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas
200
First region of Texas mapped in 1519 by Alonso Pineda
Coastal Plains
200
Explorer that slaughtered the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain
Who was Hernan Cortez?
200
The mission built in 1718 that will become the Alamo
San Antonio de Valero Mission
200
What two countries BOTH had claims on Texas?
Spanish and French
300
What is the river that gives Texas its southern border?
Rio Grande
300
Region that had the most BISON/BUFFALO in it
Great Plains
300
SPANISH explorer who crash landed in Texas and wrote a journal
Cabeza de Vaca
300
A presidio is...
A military fort to protect missions
300
Louisiana Territory (all the way up to Canada) was claimed by who FIRST?
France
400
What city is San Antonio on the Map?
D
400
Region Abilene is in
North Central Plains
400
FRENCH explorer who crashed landed in Texas, built a Fort, and accidentally brought the Spanish back
La Salle
400
Why did MOST missions fail in Texas?
Natives reject Spanish and too expensive
400
Why did Spain want to build missions in Texas? What were they REALLY afraid of?
The French taking Texas
500
All rivers flow through what region?
Coastal Plains
500
Region in which the Comanche lived
Great Plains
500
Spanish explorer who looked for the Seven Cities of Gold (Cibola)
Coronada
500
What specific religion were the Natives taught on Missions?
Catholicism
500
What was the original reason Europeans sailed to the Americas?
To find a water route to Asia