Terms
A Spanish soldier-adventurer.
What is a conquistador?
Where Cortes sailed from before he went to Mexico.
What is Spanish Cuba?
This is how Cabeza de Vaca ended up on Galveston Island.
What is shipwreck?
North African slave that helped guide Cabeza de Vaca.
Who was Estevanico?
When Cortes left Spanish Cuba.
When was 1519?
Royal Governor.
What is a viceroy?
The first city Coronado went looking for.
What is Cibola?
The worst things the explorers brought to the Indians.
What is disease?
He led his crew that was the first to see the Texas Coast.
Who was Pineda?
When Narvaez led his voyage.
When was 1527?
What the conquistadores were looking for.
What is gold, glory, and land?
The city the Turk guided Coronado to.
What is Quivira?
The area where Onate and his group celebrated their survival through the Chihuahuan Desert.
What is El Paso del Norte?
King of the Aztecs.
Who was Moctezuma II?
The year Coronado returned to Mexico City.
When was 1542?
Wild offspring of horses brought by the Spanish.
What are mustangs?
The northern region the Indians told Cabeza de Vaca about. There was no gold there.
What was Apalachee?
The first group of Indians Coronado defeated while looking for gold.
Who are the Zuni?
He took command after Hernando de Soto died. He found a way to get his group back to Mexico city.
Who was Moscoso?
The Spanish first recorded seeing American Indians riding horses then.
When was 1659?
Widespread outbreak of disease.
What is epidemic?
The city the Aztecs took Cortes to.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The American Indian that Coronado had killed after he lied about Quivira.
Who was the Turk?
Indian woman that helped Cortes gain allies and translate for him.
Who was Malinche?
Onate set out northeast to try to find gold near Quivira then.
When was 1601?