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Spanish Colonization
Spanish Colonizers
Maps & Travel Routes
France in Texas
Vocabulary
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Who was the explorer who defeated the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortez
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Who mapped the coast of Texas?
de Pineda
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What is a presidio?
a Spanish fortress
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What was the name of the French explorer who settled in Texas after missing the Mississippi River?

La Salle

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What is a conquistador?

a Spanish soldier coming to take over land and look for wealth

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What does "the 3 G's" stand for?

God (converting natives to Christianity), Glory (expanding the Spanish empire), Gold (natural resources, including land)

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Who sent back the first reports on the natives of Texas?
Cabeza de Vaca
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What indian tribe attacked Spanish settlements in the Great Plains area?
the Comanche and Apache
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What was the settlement that La Salle established?
Fort St. Louis
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What is the Columbian Exchange?

The exchange of goods (food and animals), enslaved people (from Africa to North America), and diseases (from Europe to North America) between the three continents

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What were most Spanish conquistadors looking for?

Gold, or the mythical cities of gold (Cibola)

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Who first sailed to North America, landing in the Bahamas?

Christopher Columbus

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What was the name of the halfway point between Mexico and East Texas?
San Antonio
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What river did the French want to control?
the Mississippi
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What is a missionary?

a Spanish priest or friar who came to North America to teach native peoples about Christianity

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What city lies destroyed under Mexico City?

Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital city

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What was the purpose of Coronado's journey, and where did he travel?

He was looking to find gold, and he traveled through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma

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what type of settlement did the Chicken War take place in?
a presidio
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What happened to La Salle and La Salle's fort?

his bad decisions led to his followers killing him, and the native peoples (Karankawa) attacked his fort and destroyed it

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What does "colonization" mean?

to take over a land with the intention of creating a settlement and owning all the resources present

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What was the main function of a mission?
to convert the natives
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What is the era between 1500 and 1600 known as?
The Age of Contact
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why did the production of settlements halt for Spain?
because Spain ran out of money?
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How did French settlement affect Spanish colonization?

Because Spain had claimed the land, but France had landed in their claimed land and built a settlement, Spain began focusing on making sure they built forts and missions to keep France from taking what they claimed

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What does "convert", as in "converting native peoples to Christianity", mean?

To force or encourage people to change their religion, sometimes with serious consequences