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Columbus
Cities of Gold
Missions
Spanish Influence
Explorers
100
The people that Columbus had to convince to allow him to sail across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who are the king and queen of Spain?
100
What Spanish officials asked Coronado to do.
What is claim the golden cities for Spain?
100
The Spanish built this to give them a strong claim to the land.
What are missions?
100
Mission workshops often made these things.
What are pottery, baskets, and tools?
100
The first European explorer to come to Texas in the 1500's
Who is Hernando Cortes?
200
Collect riches, teach their religion, and conquer lands and people.
What is the reason Spain had to explore the Americas?
200
A large plain Coronado saw from Caprock Escarpment that means staked plains.
What is Llano Estacado?
200
The person in charge of a mission.
What is a Padre?
200
A city that bears a Spanish name.
What is Laredo?
200
Explorer who landed in Galveston Island while trying to get to Mexico.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
300
To find a quicker way to Asia.
Why Columbus wanted to cross the Atlantic?
300
A Pawnee Indian who told Coronado about a land of riches called Quivira.
Who is El Turco or The Turk?
300
Near places already settled by Native Americans.
Where were missions built?
300
A food that is blend of Native American and Spanish cooking.
What is Tex-Mex?
300
When Cabeza de Vaca met three men who had been shipwrecked with him.
What is getting captured by the Native Americans?
400
On an island near Florida.
Where did Columbus land in 1492?
400
A priest who was sent to find the seven cities of gold called Cibola.
Who is Fray Marcos de Niza?
400
Built to protect and defend missions during attacks.
What are presidios?
400
Some homes, offices, and churches are built in the style of this Spanish building.
What is a mission?
400
Enslaved African shipwrecked with de Vaca.
Who is Esteban?
500
The names of Columbus' three ships.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
500
What Esteban thought were the golden cities.
What is adobe villages shining in the desert sunlight?
500
These grew up between presidios and missions to provide goods and services to missions and presidios.
What are villas?
500
A language the many Texans still speak.
What is Spanish?
500
Where La Salle landed when he was aiming for Louisiana.
What is Matagordo Bay, Texas?