Columbus
Cortes
Cabeza de Vaca
Coronado
DeSoto and Moscoso
100
The year Columbus arrived in the New World.
What is 1492?
100
The indigenous group Cortes conquered.
Who are the Aztecs?
100
The first European to land in Texas.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
100
The country that sent Coronado to the New World.
What is Spain?
100
DeSoto and Moscoso's country of origin.
What is Spain?
200
The book based on Columbus' arrival in the New World.
What is Encounter?
200
The term used to describe Cortes and his men.
What is conquistadors?
200
The Native Texan group that Cabeza de Vaca lived with for nine years.
Who are the Coahuiltecans?
200
The regions Coronado explored.
What is Great Plains and North Central Plains?
200
The black sticky substance these explorers found in East Texas.
What is petroleum?
300
The continent Columbus left Spain intending to reach.
What is Asia?
300
The Aztec capital Cortes conquered.
What is Tenochtitlan?
300
The book written by Cabeza de Vaca about his experiences with the Coahuiltecans.
What is La Relacion?
300
The mythical seven cities of gold Coronado was looking for.
What is Cibola?
300
The direction DeSoto and Moscoso traveled to Texas from.
What is East?
400
The name of Columbus' ships.
What is Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
400
The disease that helped Cortes conquered Aztecs.
What is smallpox?
400
The Texas regions Cabeza de Vaca traveled through.
What is the coastal plains, great plains, and mountains and basin?
400
The canyon Coronado explored and wrote about.
What is the Palo Dura Canyon?
400
The explorer that died on this expedition.
Who is DeSoto?
500
The place Columbus landed.
What is the Caribbean Islands?
500
The name of the indigenous girl that helped Cortes.
Who is Mariana?
500
The expedition that brought Cabeza de Vaca to the New World.
What is the Narvaez expedition?
500
The year Coronado explored Texas.
What is 1541?
500
The Native Texan tribe that welcomed this explorer and his men.
Who are the Caddoes?
M
e
n
u