Reasons for Exploration
The Spanish reasons for exploration.
HINT: These are the goals of spreading Christianity, gaining wealth, and earning fame or honor.
What are “God, gold, and glory”?
What is a Spanish explorer who conquered land and sought wealth for Spain; a Spanish conqueror?
What is a Spanish Conquistador?
Who is the French explorer who claimed land for France, whose expedition shipwrecked near Matagorda Bay in 1685, and was killed by his own men?
Who was La Salle?
What is the Spanish religious outpost, or settlement, where friars sought to teach Catholicism and establish a Spanish presence in Texas?
What is a mission
What was the era when European nations explored the New World and competed for control of land and people, including Texas?
What was the Age of Contact?
What was the nearly 800-year-long effort to take Spain and Portugal back from Muslim rule, which ultimately helped shape Spain’s religious and expansionist goals?
What was the Reconquista?
Who was the explorer who shipwrecked in Texas and later published his experiences after surviving hardship among Native peoples in Texas?
Who was Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca?
What was the bay where La Salle’s expedition was shipwrecked and where Fort St. Louis was built?
What is Matagorda Bay?
What were the forts that guarded Spanish settlements from attacks and helped protect Spain’s frontier claims?
What were presidios?
What is the first Spanish mission in Texas, established in far west Texas in 1682 near present-day El Paso?
What was Corpus Christi de la Ysleta?
Who was the Spanish ruler who conquered the Aztec Empire and established Spanish control in Mexico, which Spain called New Spain?
Who was Hernán Cortés?
What is the region of Texas where Coronado encountered vast herds of buffalo.
What are the Great Plains?
What was one response, such as establishing missions or sending expeditions and settlers?
Bonus 150: Name one way Spain responded.
What is Spain strengthened its presence in Texas after learning the French had tried to establish a settlement there?
Who is the Franciscan friar helped establish the first Spanish mission in East Texas?
Who was Fray Damián Massanet?
What is the 1718 mission became the best-known early mission in San Antonio and was later called the Alamo?
What was San Antonio de Valero?
In 1519, this Spanish explorer created the first reliable map of the Texas coastline
Who was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda?
In his 1542 report to King Carlos, this explorer described herds of buffalo on the Great Plains so large they were impossible to count.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
What is the French built this settlement near Matagorda Bay; its short-lived presence made Spain view France as a threat in Texas?
What was Fort St. Louis?
What is the irrigation channels that carried water to fields and settlements in Spanish Texas?
What were acequias?
What is the East Texas mission that was founded in 1690 and was named for the Caddo people of the area?
What was San Francisco de los Tejas?
European rulers hoped to gain this by claiming new lands and increasing the size of their realms.
What was greater imperial power or territory?
Coronado never found the riches he sought in these legendary cities of gold that Spaniards believed existed in the north.
What is the Cities of Cibola (Seven Cities of Gold)
France made an attempt to settle Texas which raised concern for Spain. What change followed?
What was Spain’s increased effort to explore, missionize, and colonize Texas?
Who is the group that arrived to Texas in 1731 and created the villa of San Fernando de Béxar, helping establish a civilian community and local government in San Antonio.
Who were the Canary Islanders?
What is the central Texas mission established in 1757 near the San Saba River?
What was Santa Cruz de San Sabá?