Vocabulary
What is the meaning of the word "expedition"?
What is a journey made for a special purpose?
Which explorer reached an island near Florida in 1492?
What is Christopher Columbus?
Which country backed Christopher Columbus' plan to reach Asia by sailing west?
What is Spain?
What country sent explorers north to what is today Canada?
What is Spain?
Who led an expedition of more than 300 Spaniards and 1,000 American Indians in search of the golden cities?
What is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
What is the meaning of the word "conquistador"?
What is a Conqueror, especially one of Spanish descent from the sixteenth century?
Who was the conquistador who led an expedition to conquer the Aztecs?
What is Hernan Cortez?
What did Christopher Columbus find when he reached the Americas?
What is good land, many people, and some gold?
Who explored the Mississippi river and claimed the huge river valley for France?
What is Sieur de La Salle?
What did Coronado find when he attacked a Zuni village?
What is no gold?
What is the meaning of the word "colony"?
What is a settlement of people who have moved to another country but are still ruled by their home country?
Which explorer was the first to reach present-day Texas?
What is Alonso Álvarez de Piñeda?
Who led an expedition of 500 soldiers to conquer the Aztecs?
What is Hernan Cortez?
Where did La Salle intend to start a French colony?
What is the mouth of the Mississippi River?
Who deceived Coronado and led him to a village with houses made of grass?
What is the Turk?
What is the meaning of the word "slavery"?
What is the practice of owning people and forcing them to work without pay?
Who wrote about his journey in a journal after surviving a shipwreck?
What is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
What valuable resources were sent from the Aztec empire to Spain?
What is Aztec gold, silver, and pearls?
Where did La Salle's ships mistakenly land on the Texas coast?
What is Matagorda Bay?
What did Coronado's expedition find after two years of searching?
What is nothing?
What is the meaning of the word "explorer"?
What is a person who explores an unfamiliar area; an adventurer?
Which explorer led an expedition in search of the seven cities of gold?
What is Fancisco Coronado?
Which explorer explored Texas in search of the seven cities of gold?
What is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
What happened to La Salle and his colony in Texas?
What is La Salle was killed by on of his men and everyone else died from disease and attacks by American Indians?
What impact did Coronado's expedition have on future settlement in Texas?
What is they learned about a vast land and its people?