Texas Geography
Texas is commonly divided into this number of natural regions.
What is four?
This scientist studies artifacts and other evidence to learn about people who lived in the past.
What is an archaeologist?
This farming group built permanent villages in the forests of East Texas.
Who were the Caddo?
This term means changing behavior or methods to meet the conditions of an environment.
What is adaptation?
This term describes a Spanish conqueror or soldier-explorer in the Americas.
What is a conquistador?
This Texas region borders the Gulf of Mexico and contains broad plains and prairies.
What is the Coastal Plains?
Stone projectile points and large animal bones provide evidence that early people depended partly on this activity.
What is hunting?
This Plains group developed a way of life strongly connected to horses and buffalo hunting.
Who were the Comanche?
Moving during part of the year and returning to familiar locations describes this way of life.
What is semi-nomadic?
The three major Spanish motivations for exploration and conquest are commonly summarized by these words.
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
This Texas region includes high, mostly level land and contains most of the panhandle.
What is the Great Plains?
This early period of Texas history is associated with people who hunted large animals and gathered wild plants.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
This group lived along the Gulf Coast and depended on fish, shellfish, and other coastal resources.
Who were the Karankawa?
Bringing water from wells or rivers to crops through canals or pipes is called this.
What is irrigation?
This conquistador led the campaign against the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernán Cortés?
Rainfall, landforms, vegetation, and available water help explain why people developed different settlement patterns and economic activities. These are examples of this type of geographic characteristic.
What are physical characteristics?
Pottery used for food storage and evidence of crop production suggest that people were beginning to live in this way.
What is a more settled or permanent way of life?
Some communities of this group practiced agriculture near dependable water sources in West Texas.
Who were the Jumano?
Many early peoples moved from place to place because they needed dependable supplies of these three basic resources.
What are food, water, and other natural resources?
Cortés increased the strength of his relatively small Spanish force by forming these agreements with Indigenous groups that opposed Aztec rule.
What were alliances?
This region contains the highest elevations and most rugged mountains in Texas.
What is the Mountains and Basins Region?
Historians must rely heavily on artifacts to study the earliest people of Texas because these people left few or none of these.
What are written records?
Historians place different peoples into these broad areas because groups living in similar environments sometimes developed similar ways of meeting their needs.
What are cultural regions?
The Caddo established farming villages, while many Plains peoples moved to hunt buffalo. This difference was largely caused by variations in this.
What were the environment and available resources?
Indigenous alliances, Spanish military technology, and the spread of this deadly disease all contributed to the fall of the Aztec Empire.
What was smallpox?