Regions of Texas
Explorers
Eras
Indians
Vocabulary
100

This region has the lowest elevation.

What is Coastal Plains?

100

The explorer that was looking for Asia but found America instead.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

This era is where Texas joined the United States. 

What is Early Statehood?

100

These tribes were both nomadic.

Who are The Karankawa and Coahuiltecan tribes?

100

This is a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas.

What is a conquistador?


200

This region is primarily used for agriculture.

What is North Central Plains?

200

The explorer that defeated the Aztec empire and began Spanish rule in Mexico.

Who is Hernan Cortes?

200

This era explains how Mexico gained independence from Spain.

What is Mexican National?

200

This tribe lived in grass houses with grass roofing.

Who are the Caddo?

200

This is a Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the New World.

What is a viceroy?

300

This region has Palo Duro Canyon located in it. 

What is Great Plains?

300

The explorer who was searching for a water route to the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico.

Who is Alonso Alvarez de Pineda?

300

This era explains how Texas fought for and gained independence from Mexico.

What is Texas Revolution?

300

This tribe depended on bison for meat, clothing, tools, and shelter.

Who are the Comanche?

300

This is the process of growing plants and raising animals for food.

What is agriculture?

400

This region has Big Bend National Park located in it. 

What is Mountains and Basins?

400

This explorer was a slave of the Karankawa tribe and journaled his way through his first time in Texas. 

Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?

400

This era explains the different regions of Texas and how Native Americans lived in these regions.

What is Natural Texas and It's People?

400

This tribe lived in the Mountains and Basins region and built irrigation systems.

Who are the Jumano?

400

This is a period of time with distinct political, economic, social characteristics. 

What is an era?

500

How does the physical environment of coastal Texas contrast with that of the Mountain and Basin region?

What is Coastal has more rivers?

500

What was the name of the explorer that I told you had a disastrous journey trying to copy Alonso Alvarez de Pineda?

Who is Panfilo Narvaez?

500

This era explains the arrival of Spanish explorers in Texas and how the Spanish explorers interacted with Native Americans.

What is Age of Contact?

500

This tribe was considered the first tribe to settle in Texas.

Who are the Coahuiltecan?

500

This is the first-hand accounts of an event created by eyewitnesses or first recorders at the time of the event.

What is a primary source?