Columbus
Pineda
Cabeza de Vaca
Coronado
La Salle
100
What is the month and year Columbus discovered the New World?
October 1492
100
Who are Spanish soldiers?
Conquistadores
100
Who is the explorer that was with Narvaez, they ship wrecked twice, and landed on Malhado (the isle of misfortune)?
Cabeza de Vaca
100
Who is the explorer that found Cibola, a pueblo made of stone, sticks, and mud?
Coronado
100
What country took interest in Texas after Spain abandoned it?
France
200
What is the island that Columbus established a permanent colony on?
West Indies
200
Who created missions and helped convert Native Americans to the Catholic faith?
Friars
200
de Vaca and his fellow survivors were the first Europeans to enter and live in _______________?
Present day Texas
200
What geographic feature did Coronado's men discover?
The Grand Canyon
200
Who claimed the entire Mississippi River Valley for France?
La Salle
300
What is the name of the three ships Columbus sailed with?
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
300
Who is the Spanish explorer the Aztecs thought was their returning god?
Cortes
300
Who is the first African (Morocco in North Africa) to enter Texas?
Estevanico
300
What city did Turk ( a Native American) tell Coronado about?
Quivira
300
What bay did La Salle land in after a storm in 1685?
Matagorda Bay
400
What is the continent that Columbus thought he had reached?
Asia
400
Who was the Aztecs' emperor?
Moctezuma
400

Cabeza de Vaca is remembered for ...

Book/Journal about Texas

400
What were the "cows of the plains"
Buffalo
400
What is the name of the stockade that the French built in Texas?
Fort St. Louis
500
What are the 3 G's the Spanish came in search of?
Gold, God, and Glory
500
Who mapped the Gulf Coast from Florida to Veracruz (Mexico) for Governor Garay of Jamaica?
Pineda
500
What is the name of the seven cities of gold?
Cibola
500
Who is the explorer that went as far west as the Brazos River?
Moscoso
500
Who was the king that La Salle named Louisiana for?
Louis XIV
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