Review Questions from Explorers

1. Review Questions from Explorers Updated Nov 2010

2. Questions-First explores of TX Update Nov 2010

3. Don Juan de Onate is important to Texas history because • brought Spanish horse to Texas • established the first Thanksgiving feast in the New World. • brought back much gold and silver. • founded the first European settlement in Texas. d. founded the first European settlement in Texas.

4. Who was the Aztec leader? • Quetzalcoatl • Montezuma • Cabeza de Vaca • La Toma b. Montezuma

5. From your timeline, who was the first Spaniard to sail the coastline of Texas? • Alonzo de Pineda • Balboa • Cabeza de Vaca • Coronado a. Alonzo de Pineda

6. Tenochtitlan is what city today? • Mexico City. • Veracruz • Monterey • Cancun a. Mexico City.

7. What mistake did Montezuma make? • He gave women to the soldiers. • He promised to make the men gods. • tried to buy off the army with gold, silver, and gems. • Showed the soldiers his army-strength and weaknesses c. tried to buy off the army with gold, silver, and gems.

8. All were reasons the Spanish conquered the Aztecs EXCEPT • deadly smallpox virus had killed many of the Aztec people. • Spanish had modern weapons • Spanish had horses • All helped to conquer the Aztecs a.$14,000

9. The conquistador who invaded the Aztec empire • La Salle • de Pineda • Coronado • Cortéz d. Cortéz

10. Quiz Early Explorers

11. What below from the exploits of Cabeza de Vaca led other to explore TX? • describe Tx land as being fertile. • Natives were general friendly. • Tx could be part of greater Spain • brought back word of Seven cities of Gold. d. brought back word of Seven cities of Gold.

12. What below help Cabeza de Vaca survive? • claimed to be a shaman. • claimed to be a member of royalty. • claimed to be an explorer. • claimed to be a god. a. Claimed to be a shaman

13. What did Cabeza de Vaca call Galveston? • Paradise • Malhado … island of Misfortune • Land of milk and honey • Cibola b. Malhado … island of Misfortune

14. On what island was Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked? • Padre Island • Galveston Island • Matagorda Island • Tiki Island b. Galveston Island

15. Page __117_ Texas and Texans • Cattle farmers • Herds of buffalo • How native people made shoes • The mouth of the Rio Grande • B. Herds of buffalo

16. Quiz Spanish Explorers Updated Nov.2010

17. The first Aztecs welcomed Cortés because they thought he was • the King of Spain. • a French explorer. • a Pawnee chief. • the god Quetzalcoatl. d. the god Quetzalcoatl.

18. Cabeza de Vaca described Texas as being • a barren desert. • wet and swampy. • cold and ugly. • very fertile. d. very fertile.

19. The first European to explore the Texas coast • La Salle • de Pineda • Coronado • Marcos b. de Pineda

20. The conquistador who invaded the Aztec empire • La Salle • de Pineda • Coronado • Cortéz d. Cortéz

21. A governor of a region who represents the monarch is a • conquistador. • viceroy. • friar. • king or queen. b. viceroy.

22. Quiz Questions

23. The Spanish were amazed by the “cows” of the plains because • the animals had no horns. • Plains people raised them. • the animals were so small. • the herds were so large. • D. the herds were so large.

24. A village with connected, flat-roofed buildings is called • an adobe. • a pineda. • a mission. • a pueblo. d. a pueblo.

25. Coronado’s troops often lost their way in North Texas because • the grass became erect after they walked upon it. • they failed to leave signs as they went. • the plains were so level that the sky appeared “like a bowl.” • buffalo trampled their tracks. • C. the plains were so level that the sky appeared “like a bowl.”

26. The Spanish explorer who searched for Cibola or Quivera was • La Salle • Coronado • Cortés • Pineda b. Coronado

27. The first explorer sent to check on stories of Cíbola • de Pineda • Coronado • Cortés • Fray Marcos d. Fray Marcos

28. In 1609, Spaniards set up a permanent colony and named it • New Mexico. • Colorado • Arizona • Malhado. a. New Mexico.

29. The tribe that killed Estevanico was the • Aztecs. • Zuñis. • Pawnees. • Wichitas. b. Zuñis.

30. An area supposedly rich with gold, silver and precious gems was • Tiguex. • Veracruz. • Cíbola. • Santa Fe. c. Cíbola.

31. When Spanish explorers reached Cibola or Quivera, they found • a lost Spanish settlement. • treasures of gold and silver. • a poor Native American settlement. • a French trading post. c. a poor Native American settlement.

32. Quiz Questions

33. The Spanish were amazed by the “cows” of the plains because • the animals had no horns. • Plains people raised them. • the animals were so small. • the herds were so large. • D. the herds were so large.

34. A village with connected, flat-roofed buildings is called • an adobe. • a pineda. • a mission. • a pueblo. d. a pueblo.

35. Coronado’s troops often lost their way in North Texas because • the grass became erect after they walked upon it. • they failed to leave signs as they went. • the plains were so level that the sky appeared “like a bowl.” • buffalo trampled their tracks. • C. the plains were so level that the sky appeared “like a bowl.”

36. The Spanish explorer who searched for Cibola or Quivera was • La Salle • Coronado • Cortés • Pineda b. Coronado

37. The first explorer sent to check on stories of Cíbola • de Pineda • Coronado • Cortés • Fray Marcos d. Fray Marcos

38. In 1609, Spaniards set up a permanent colony and named it • New Mexico. • Colorado • Arizona • Malhado. a. New Mexico.

39. The tribe that killed Estevanico was the • Aztecs. • Zuñis. • Pawnees. • Wichitas. b. Zuñis.

40. An area supposedly rich with gold, silver and precious gems was • Tiguex. • Veracruz. • Cíbola. • Santa Fe. c. Cíbola.

41. When Spanish explorers reached Cibola or Quivera, they found • a lost Spanish settlement. • treasures of gold and silver. • a poor Native American settlement. • a French trading post. c. a poor Native American settlement.

42. Quiz-The Conquistadores Come to Tx

43. An enclosure of posts made to form a defense a. stockade stockade Malhado Tenochtitlan castle

44. Island near present-day Galveston … Cabeza de Vaca named the “isle of misfortune” b. Malhado Cozumel Malhado Tenochtitlan Yucatan

45. A person belonging to one of the religious brotherhoods of the Catholic Church a. viceroy viceroy friar Quetzalcoatl conquistador

46. Which one of the following was NOT a goal of the Spanish in exploring the New World? d. defeat the English to make their country more powerful to gain wealth for themselves to spread Christianity defeat the English

47. At first, the Aztecs welcomed Hernan Cortes because they thought he was a. the god Quetzalcoatl. the god Quetzalcoatl. a French explorer. a friendly trader. the king of Spain.

48. When Cabeza de Vaca became shipwrecked off the coast of Galveston, he survived by b. adopting the ways of the Karankawas building a stockade. adopting the ways of the Karankawas. using supplies from the ship. walking across Texas to the nearest mission.

49. I am Spanish. I was put in charge of an expedition to find seven cities of gold. Though I found no gold, my men were the first to see the Palo Duro and Grand Canyons. Who am I? d. Francisco Vazquez de Coronado Juan de Onate Antonio de Mendoza Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

50. Led expedition in Southwest from 1640 to 1642 looking for Seven Cities of Cibola. I returned to Mexico when mission failed . b. Coronado La Salle Coronado Estevanico Cabeza de Vaca