Texas Geography
This is the most populated and wettest region in Texas.
What is the Coastal Plains?
This term means moving from one place to another and often brings culture with it.
What is migration?
I created the first map of the Texas coast in 1519.
Who is Álvarez de Pineda?
This culture group lived in adobe homes and used irrigation to farm.
Who are the Puebloans (Jumanos)?
In this year, Columbus sailed and landed in the Caribbean.
What is 1492?
This region includes Fort Worth and has rivers and hills.
What is the North Central Plains?
This idea said European nations could claim land they “discovered.”
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
I was shipwrecked and walked across North America for 8 years. I was known for healing and respecting Indigenous people.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
Plains cultures like the Apache relied on this animal for food, tools, and shelter.
What is the buffalo?
This explorer mapped the Texas coast in 1519.
Who is Álvarez de Pineda?
This is the driest and least populated region of Texas.
What is the Mountains & Basins region?
This belief was used to justify land theft, slavery, and genocide.
What is white supremacy?
I conquered the Aztecs and claimed land and gold for Spain.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This East Texas group had a political system with hereditary leaders called xinsei.
Who are the Caddo?
This expedition in 1527 became a survival journey and brought Cabeza de Vaca to Texas.
What is the Narvaez expedition?
These are features like rivers, climate, and mountains that are made by nature.
What are physical characteristics?
This system aimed to erase Indigenous people and take their land.
What is settler colonialism?
I missed the mouth of the Mississippi River by 400 miles and landed in Texas.
Who is Sieur de La Salle?
These Gulf Coast tribes were nomadic and used canoes to travel through marshes.
Who are the Karankawa and Coahuiltecan?
This explorer arrived in 1538 and falsely claimed he saw the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who is Marcos de Niza?
Name all four regions of Texas.
What are Mountains & Basins, Great Plains, North Central Plains, and Coastal Plains?
These reasons explain why Europeans explored new lands.
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
I searched for the Seven Cities of Cibola but said Texas was worthless when I didn’t find gold.
Who is Francisco Vásquez de Coronado?
This major trading hub connected tribes from Mexico, the Gulf Coast, and East Texas.
What is La Junta de los Ríos?
This explorer built Fort St. Louis in Texas in 1685.
Who is La Salle?