What is the name of the poeple that the Spaniards had to annihilate because they could not assimilate such a low-barbarian, precivilized, non-agrarian tribe?
100
Rio Grande
What is the river along which the Spanish settlements in North America were strung like pearls on a necklace?
100
guerrilla
What is the sort of bedouin warfare, of raid and counterraid, of the Comanche called today?
100
1706
What is year in which mounted Comanche warriors arrived in Spanish New Mexico?
200
They began to "disappear," to move off to the south and west.
What is the change in the Apaches that the Spanish began to notice around 1706?
200
agriculture
What is the type of life that doomed many of the Athapaskan tribes in the path of the Comanches?
200
Apacheria
What is term for the land the plains Indians occupied, which stretched from the mountains of New Mexico to the plains of present-day Kansas and Oklahoma, doen to the Nueces River in southern Texas?
200
1 million
What is the number to which the native population of Central America, which was 11 million in1520, had plummeted by 1650?
200
July 1706
What is the month and year in which the Spanish first encountered the Comanche in Taos, New Mexico?
300
The Apaches were destroyed or pushed away by the Comanches.
What began in the 1400s, when the Athapaskan tribes moved down the front range of the Rockies to claim the buffalo routes?
300
Geronimo and Cochise
Who were the famous and notorious chiefs of the Chiracahua Apaches?
300
Arizona, New Mexico, and the Mexican borderlands
What deserts and mesas became home to the displaced Apaches?
300
encomienda
What is the word for the feudal type system by which the conquistadors could occupy native lands, tax the inhabitants, and force them to perform labor?
300
1650
What is the year in which the Spanish first encountered the Apaches, whose hostility was unmatched by any other people the Spanish had met?
400
the massacre of an entire Spanish expedition at the hands of the Pawnees
What is the event in 1720 that was incited by the French, who never fired a weapon?
400
the Comanches
What is the native Americans who had a genius for navigation across vast distances of the Great Plains?
400
the Rio Grande
What is the river across which the Comanches were driving the Apaches before them?
400
the "Comanche barrier"
What is the term the Spanish authorities gave to the borders of the Comanche lands?
400
1748
What is the year by which the Comanches had driven all of the Apaches out of West Texas, western Kansas, western Oklahoma, and eastern Colorado, and even from Taos, New Mexico?
500
sent soldiers to pursue the Comanche into their own territory
What is what the Spanish governor Velez Cachupin did that actually resulted in a victory for the Spanish?
500
the Kiowas
What is the tribe that made a key peace treaty with the Comanches in 1790, giving them a powerful ally?
500
Louisiana
What is the territory in which the French had established trading companies?
500
the San Saba Massacre
What is the name of the terrible defeat of the Spanish in 1758, near the town of present-day Menard, Texas?
500
1758
What is the year of the greatest Spanish defeat, led by Don diego Ortiz de Parrilla?