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Oldies but Goodies
100
I began the era of Exploration.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100

Spanish word for explorers.

What are conquistadors?

100
The three reasons the Spanish were in Texas.
What is God, Gold and Glory?
100

Fort St. Louis was located closest to which present-day city in Texas?

Corpus Christi.

100
The four regions of Texas.
What is Mountains and Basins, Great Plains, Central Plains, Coastal Plains?
200

What was the goal of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, when he returned from France?

To start a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River to establish fur trading.

200

Travel for the purpose of discovery or adventure.

What is exploration?

200
Cortes is allowed into the Aztec capital because of this reason.
What is the Aztecs thought he was a god?
200
The main reason the Spanish defeat the Native Americans so easily.
What are weapons?
200
The river that makes up the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma?
What is the Red River?
300
I was shipwrecked by a storm and then wandered Texas with Native Americans for 8 years.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
300

An are which consists of Africa, Europe, and Asia regarded collectively as the part of the world known to the inhabitants before contact with the Americas

What is The Old World

300
Pineda makes the first of this.
What is map of Texas coast?
300

Refers to the biological and cultural exchange of animals, plants, human populations, diseases, arts, languages, technologies, and ideas between

What is Columbian Exchange?

300
A building material used by Mountains and Basis Native Americans?
What is adobe?
400
I went looking for gold, found none, but discovered the Grand Canyon and Palo Duro Canyon.
Who is Coronado?
400
A specific period of time used by historians to study history.
What is an era?
400

Cabeza de Vaca and Estavanico were allowed to live because of this reason.

What is they removed an arrow from a Native American?

400

What was the name of the Spanish empire in the Americas?

New Spain

400
Native Americans that move around.
What are nomads?
500
I am the first Spanish explorer to reach what is today Texas.
Who is Pineda?
500

A term for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, Specifically, the Americas

What is The New World.
500
The only French explorer to come to Texas.
Who is La Salle?
500
La Salle's life ends in this way.
What is he was shot?
500
The six flags over Texas.
What are Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederacy, United States.