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Spanish Exploration
French Exploration
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
The main goal of Columbus.
What is sailing west to reach China and India?
100
The French explorer who claimed Texas for France.
Who is LaSalle?
100
A Spanish solider who sought riches and power for themselves, and wealth and glory for Spain
What is a conquistador?
100
These are the 3 reasons that conquistadors explored the New World.
What is Gold, Glory, and God?
200
He conquered the Aztec empire.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
200
LaSalle was the first European to lead an expedition down these bodies of water.
What is the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico?
200
Spanish leaders who wanted to convert the Indians to Christianity.
What is a friar?
200
The current era we are studying.
What is the Age of Contact?
300
He took over Hernan de Soto's expedition and became the first European in East Texas?
Who is Moscoso?
300
The outpost built by LaSalle.
What is Fort St. Louis?
300
The name given to the highest ranking official in New Spain.
What is a viceroy?
300
The belief that the world has a fixed amount of wealth.
What is mercantilism?
400
The first explorer to map the Texas coastline.
Who is Alonso Alvarez de Pineda?
400
LaSalle's one success.
What is building a stockade to enclose French settlers?
400
A religious outpost.
What is a mission?
400
The 4 reasons conquistadors were able to conquer Natives.
What is superior weapons, horses, natives believing the Spaniards were gods, and disease?
500
The African slave who accompanied Cabeza de Vaca.
Who is Estevanico?
500
This is how the Spanish responded to LaSalle's activities.
What is shifting their focus to East Texas?
500
An enclosure of posts made to form a defense
What is a stockade?
500
The "short horned" animal Cabeza de Vaca wrote about in his book.
What are buffalo?