Spanish Explorers
The Italian that was working for Spain to find a route from Europe to Asia.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
What the Spanish called their newly claimed territory.
What is New Spain?
The French explorer that claimed the Mississippi River for France.
Who is Robert de la Salle?
The Native American tribe that Cabeza de Vaca lived amongst for eight years.
Who are the Karankawa?
A Spanish warrior-explorer.
What is a conquistador?
The Spanish explorer that arrived in modern day Mexico in 1519.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
The Muslim Empire that the Europeans did not want to have to pay taxes to travel through.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Establishing a settlement at the base of the Mississippi River.
What were the French settlers supposed to be doing?
The massive empire that the Spanish conquered when they arrived in modern-day Mexico in 1519.
Who are the Aztecs or Mexica?
the title given to the Spanish governor.
What is a viceroy?
The Spanish explorer that went looking for cities made of gold.
Who was Francisco Coronado?
The explorer that realized Christopher Columbus did not find a new route to Asia but found a new place.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The area in modern-day Texas where the French came ashore?
What is Matagorda Bay?
Because he thought he was in the East Indies?
Why did Christopher Columbus call the people he encountered "Indians?"
The time period from 1536-1690 when the Spanish encountered the Native Americans and unfortunately disease killed thousands due to it.
What is the "Age of Contact?"
The Spanish explorer that lived among the Karankawa and set off the "Age of Contact."
Who was Cabeza de Vaca?
The city of gold the Spanish explorers were in search of.
What is Cibola?
The settlement the French established in modern-day Texas.
What is Fort St. Louis?
The Native Americans that attacked and killed many of the French settlers.
Who are the Karankawa?
The names of the six flags over Texas.
What are the Spanish, French, Mexican, Texan, Confederate, and United States flags?
The Spanish explorer that mapped out the gulf coast from Mexico to Florida.
Who was Alonso Alvarez de Pineda?
The barrier island where Cabeza de Vaca crashed his ship. He named the island Malhado (isle of misfortune)
What is Galveston?
The Spanish moved into east Texas for the first time.
What was the Spanish reaction to the French being in modern-day Texas?
The number one killer of Native Americans and Spanish explorers during the "Age of Contact."
What is disease?
An economic system that bases a nation's wealth on how much gold and silver they have.
What is mercantilism?