Explorers
Vocabulary
Explorer Routes
Exploration
Miscellaneous
100
This was written in Cabeza de Vaca's book, Relacion.
What is information about Texas land, people, animals, and the Seven Cities of Cibola?
100
Shaman.
What is a medicine man?
100
East Texas.
Who was Moscoso?
100
1500-1600.
What time period did Europeans (Spanish) explore Texas?
100
The meaning of "Tay-yas".
What is friends?
200
What de Pineda did.
What was map the Texas Gulf Coast?
200
Indigenous people.
What are people who are native to a place?
200
The Texas coast.
Who was de Pineda?
200
The three G's of Spanish Exploration.
What was Gold, God, and Glory?
200
Why the Native Americans were called "Indians".
What is Columbus thought he had landed in India?
300
What Columbus wanted to do.
What was find a western route to India?
300
Reconquista.
What was Spain's effort to regain its land from the Moors?
300
The Texas Panhandle.
Who was Coronado?
300
Why the Spanish were able to conquer the natives in the Americas so quickly.
What was the natives had no immunity to European diseases?
300
Louisiana.
What is the land that drained into the Mississippi River?
400
What Coronado was searching for.
What were the Seven Cities of Cibola or Seven Cities of Gold?
400
Conquistadors.
Who were the leaders in the Spanish conquest of the Americas?
400
The Texas coast to Matagorda Bay.
Who was LaSalle?
400
Why the Spanish neglected Texas.
What was it had no gold or other treasure?
400
A lasting of effect of Spanish exploration in Texas.
What was many of Texas's rivers were given Spanish names?
500
What LaSalle was looking for when he landed in Texas.
What was the mouth of the Mississippi River?
500
Expeditions.
What are journeys made for a special purpose?
500
Galveston Island, across the Great Plains, to the Mountains and Basins.
Who was Cabeza de Vaca?
500
Why Spain decided to reestablish its presence in Texas.
What was the French had established Fort St. Louis there (even though the fort did not last)?
500
Another name for the Age of Contact.
What is European Exploration?
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