Events
What is Natural Texas and Its People?
Discovered North and South America
Hint: He was searching for a water route to Asia
Who was Christopher Columbus?
The reason that Spain lost interest in Texas.
What is no gold?
Coronado began his search for Cibola this year.
When was 1540?
Spanish explorers were motivated by these three things.
What is Gold, God and Glory?
Era when Spanish explores encounter Native Americans for the first time searching for the three g's.
What is Age of Contact?
Landed in Mexico in 1519, defeated the Aztecs and built Mexico City
Who was Hernando Cortes?
This happened to La Salle and his fort.
Hint. Mutiny
What is killed by his unhappy men and fort was distroyed?
Year that Cabeza De Vaca shipwrecked in Texas
When was 1528?
This Country set up a successful Fur Trade in North America.
Who was France?
7 Cities of Gold and Silver
What is Cibola?
Mapped the Gulf of Mexico including the Texas Coastline.
Who was Alonso Alverez de Pineda?
Name of the river discovered by DeSoto and Moscoso
What was Mississippi River?
Cortes and Pineda have this important date in common.
When was 1519?
Where is Spain?
This explorer never set foot in Texas
Who was Hernando Cortes?
1528, Shipwrecked in Texas, was made a slave, eventually became a shaman, trader for the Karankawa tribe for 8 years.
Hint: Wrote a book
Who was Cabeza de Vaca?
The most important result of La Salle's failure expedition is this.
What is caused Spain to regain interest and began to colonize the area?
Year that La Salle shipwrecked in Texas
When was 1685?
La Salle sailed down this river to help France establish relations with natives for fur
What is the Mississippi River?
Spain takes back their country from African Moors. Hint: it lasted 800 years.
What was the Reconquista?
1540, Explorers sent to search for Cibola but reported to Spain that the area of Texas had good land for farming but no gold.
Tribe that destroyed Fort St. Louis, captured 5 of La Salle's french soldiers and killed the remaining explorers.
Who were the Karankawa?
Age of Contact began in this year (officially)
When was 1528?
Put the explorers in chronological order
Hint: 1492-1685
Who was Columbus, Cortes, Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca, DeSoto and Moscoso, Coronado, and La Salle