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Narvaez Expedition
Shipwrecked
Escape
Governor Cabeza de Vaca and Cibola
100
What year do many historians say he was born?
1490 (late 1400s)
100
What is the full name of the leader of the Narvaez expedition?
Pánfilo de Narváez
100
Cabeza de Vaca became known as a _____________ to the natives.
medicine man
100
What area of America did they travel in after escaping?
Southwest (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico)
100
Cibola was known as the cities of _____.
gold
200
What year did he die?
1557... duh!
200
What year did Cabeza de Vaca join the expedition?
1527
200
What tribe captured the survivors?
Karankawa
200
How many miles did they travel after escaping?
2,000
200
Cabeza de Vaca was appointed governor of a large area of land that is now known as ___________.
Paraguay (and Argentina)
300
Cabeza de Vaca was from what country?
Spain!
300
What job did Cabeza de Vaca have on the expedition?
Treasurer (and chief constable)
300
What did Cabeza de Vaca remove from a native man, earning him the reputation as a healer?
An arrowhead
300
Name one thing the Native American tribes gave to the travelers as they explored.
shells, beads, emerald arrowheads, and turquoise
300
Why didn't Cabeza de Vaca's men like him?
He treated the natives kindly.
400
What is the name of his book, which is the first recorded history of Texas?
La Relacion
400
What tribe did the expedition have trouble with while in Florida?
Apalachee
400
The natives thought Cabeza de Vaca's surgeries were _____.
Magic
400
Who did the travelers find who helped them get back home?
Spanish slave traders
400
He hoped to return to Florida and the Southwest as the commander of an expedition, but that honor went to _____________.
Hernando de Soto
500
What is the name of the ancestor who first received the name Cabeza de Vaca
Martin Alhaja
500
What did Alonso del Castillo, Andrés Dorantes, and the Moor Estevánico have in common?
They were all survivors of the Narvaez expedition.
500
How did Cabeza de Vaca escape?
He escaped while on a trip to perform his surgeries.
500
After living among Native Americans for so many years, Cabeza de Vaca and his men still wore _______ and slept on _______.
Native American clothing the floor/ground
500
Where did Cabeza de Vaca live out the rest of his life?
Spain