Age of Contact Era
Which group represents the Spanish soldier-explorers who hoped to claim wealth and territory during the Age of Act of Contact?
What is Conquistadors
Who spent two years traveling through Texas looking for a way home?
What is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
What region of Texas did Coronado most likely explore?
What is Great Plains?
What was the main reason Spain decided to build settlements in Texas?
What is To block the French from controlling Texas?
Who mapped the Texas coastline for the Spanish?
Who is Alonso Alvarez de Pineda?
Which conquistador established Spanish rule in Mexico and parts of Texas?
What is Hernan Cortes?
The journal of his experiences provided a first-hand account of his time in Texas and ?
What is Fueled further exploration in North America?
What was the most important result of La Salle's expedition in Texas?
What is Spain renewed its interest in Texas and began to colonize the area?
Conquistadors faced many hardships.
Search for gold other riches.
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What is Discovery of new lands and people?
Who searched for Cibola and explored the southwestern U.S.
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
Why is the year 1519 significant in Texas history?
What is the first reliable map of the Texas coastline was created?
Spanish and French explorers both claimed land in Texas is in what era?
What is Age of Contact era?
Which area was claimed by France?
What is Louisiana?
Increasing wealth and access to natural resources, spreading Christianity, expanding an empire's power by increasing its size is what?
What is Reasons for Exploration?
Which of La Salle's action caused conflict with Spain?
What is He built a French Fort in Texas?
What was the effect of European explorers search for new lands?
What is Spain is the first to claim Texas?
Establishing trade networks with Native Americans was a main goal of which of the following countries?
What is France?
Who captured the Aztec empire in Mexico?
Who is Hernan Cortes?
What motivated these explorers to continue through such hardship?
What is Gold?
Why did Columbus travel across the Atlantic Ocean?
What is To find a new route to Asia?
What was the initial reason that many European explorers sailed to the Americas?
What is To find new trade routes to Asia?
Who explored Texas and lived among the Karankawa?
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?