What vocabulary word describes "a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth and land in the Americas"?
Conquistador
100
What vocabulary word describes a "person belonging to one of the religious brotherhoods of the Roman Catholic Church"?
Friar
100
Which European explorer was the first to encounter modern day North America in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
100
Which explorer trekked all the way to modern day Wichita, Kansas, in search of the wealthy city of Quivera, but found nothing but a simple Native American village?
Coronado
100
When Cortes and his men defeated the Aztec's, what did they rename Tenochtitlan?
Mexico City
200
What vocabulary word describes "a land claimed for and controlled by a distant nation"?
Colony
200
What vocabulary word describes "a journey undertaken by a group of people with a definite purpose"?
Expedition
200
Who funded Columbus's voyage? (Two Answers)
Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand
200
Which Spanish explorer was the first the reach the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
200
What vocabulary word describes "a triangle-shaped area of mud and silt deposits that forms at the mouth of some rivers"?
Delta
300
What vocabulary word describes a "Native American village of houses built of adobe, or sun-dried bricks of straw and clay"?
Pueblo
300
What vocabulary word describes "to grant the power or authority to carry out a specific task"?
Commission
300
What was Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda's mission in 1519?
To map the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico
300
Who took over de Soto's expedition when he passed away?
Luis de Moscoso de Alvarado
300
What was Columbus trying to establish with his first voyage?
A trade route
400
What vocabulary word describes "one who is sent to do religious or charitable work in a territory or foreign country"?
Missionary
400
What vocabulary word describes "governor of a colony who rules in the name of the king"?
Viceroy
400
How did Panfilo de Narvaez die?
Drowned in a hurricane
400
La Salle claimed land along the Mississippi River for what country?
France
400
Cabeza de Vaca and the French explorers both encountered the same group of Native Texans. Which tribe was it?
Karankawas
500
What vocabulary word describes "a pirate, especially one who preyed on ships during the 1600s"?
Buccaneer
500
What vocabulary word describes "a settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people of the area"?
Mission
500
Who survived the Narvaez expedition and went on to become the first European explorer to explore the interior of Texas?
Cabeza de Vaca
500
Who did La Salle name Louisiana after?
King Louis XIV
500
Coronado killed and Eastern Plains Native because he lied to him about the location of Quivera. What was this natives name?