Explorers

Question 1

Discovered new lands thought to be Asia

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus

Question 2

Inspired explorers to sail West

Answer 2

Christopher Columbus

Question 3

conquered the Aztec Empire for Spain

Answer 3

Hernan Cortes

Question 4

Built Mexico City in New Spain

Answer 4

Hernan Cortes

Question 5

Mapped the coast of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico

Answer 5

Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

Question 6

survivors of his expedition washed ashore in TX

Answer 6

Panfilo de Narvaez

Question 7

survivors of his expedition were stranded in Texas

Answer 7

Panfilo de Narvaez

Question 8

Was shipwrecked and stranded in Texas

Answer 8

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 9

His journey began the Age of Contact

Answer 9

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 10

First European to explore Texas

Answer 10

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 11

Wrote stories about Texas that inspired future explorers.

Answer 11

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 12

Discovered Palo Duro Canyon

Answer 12

Vasquez de Coronado

Question 13

Searched for Cibola and Quivira

Answer 13

Vasquez de Coronado

Question 14

Murdered by his own men

Answer 14

La Salle

Question 15

Established Fort St. Louis

Answer 15

La Salle

Question 16

Claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France

Answer 16

La Salle

Question 17

Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas

Answer 17

Damian Massanet

Question 18

Wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas

Answer 18

Damian Massanet

Question 19

Father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley

Answer 19

Jose de Escandon

Question 20

More than 6,000 people lived in his settlements

Answer 20

Jose de Escandon

Question 21

Founded 20 settlements in southern Texas

Answer 21

Jose de Escandon

Question 22

Sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War

Answer 22

Miguel de Aguayo

Question 23

Reopened missions that had been abandoned during the Chicken War

Answer 23

Miguel de Aguayo

Question 24

Established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Answer 24

Miguel de Aguayo

Question 25

Opened the most successful mission in East Texas

Answer 25

Antonio Margil de Jesus

Question 26

Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas

Answer 26

Father Francisco Hidalgo

Question 27

Which region separated Spanish land?

Answer 27

New France

Question 28

Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

Answer 28

San Antonio de Valero

Question 29

French settlement near Matagorda Bay

Answer 29

Fort St. Louis

Question 30

Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Answer 30

Los Adaes

Question 31

First Mission in East Texas

Answer 31

San Francisco de los Tejas

Question 32

place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Answer 32

Quivira

Question 33

Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas

Answer 33

San Antonio de Bexar

Question 34

What was Tenochtitlan?

Answer 34

The Aztec Capital

Question 35

Mission that was built 35 miles away from the Rio Grande in 1699, later moved closer to the river for better water access

Answer 35

San Juan Bautista

Question 36

Presidio located on the Neches River

Answer 36

Nuestra Senora de los Dolores de los Tejas

Question 37

Oversaw the work of Presidio San Antonio de Bexar

Answer 37

Martin de Alarcon

Question 38

Founded Mission San Antonio de Valero

Answer 38

San Buenaventura y Olivares

Question 39

A Presidio that Aguayo built near Matagorda Bay

Answer 39

La Bahia

Question 40

A conflict in which the French post of Natchitoches "attacked" a Spanish mission with only one soldier and one fair present. Later, the two Spaniards would escape from their captors

Answer 40

The Chicken War

Question 41

Why is France Spain's greatest rival?

Answer 41

Because Spain's colonies were split in two by New France, the French could easily take control of their colonies in places like modern-day Florida because of the difficulty of shipping supplies to those split-off colonies

Question 42

When did Columbus discover the New World?

Answer 42

1492

Question 43

When did Cortes Hernan Cortes sail from Cuba to the east coast of Mexico to establish the settlement of Veracruz?

Answer 43

1519

Question 44

When did Cortes start his conquest of the Aztec Empire?

Answer 44

1519

Question 45

When did Pineda map the Texas Coast?

Answer 45

1519

Question 46

When was Narvaez sent to Florida to find gold, but ended up getting his expedition sucked up in a hurricane?

Answer 46

1527

Question 47

When was Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked in Texas?

Answer 47

1528

Question 48

When did Coronado search for the cities of Cibola and Quivira?

Answer 48

1540

Question 49

When was La Salle sent to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River?

Answer 49

1684

Question 50

Sent to the Americas to establish a colony by the Mississippi, instead missed the Mississippi by 400 miles

Answer 50

La Salle

Question 51

Built to convert and educate native peoples in Spanish culture and religion

Answer 51

Mission

Question 52

Fort; built to house soldiers who protected settlers

Answer 52

Presidio

Question 53

Built to house settlers

Answer 53

Town

Question 54

A disagreement or fight

Answer 54

Conflict

Question 55

to act on; to influence

Answer 55

Affect

Question 56

A Catholic priest who belongs to a religious order

Answer 56

Frair

Question 57

A group of advisors

Answer 57

Council

Question 58

When was the Presidio of San Antonio de Bexar established?

Answer 58

1718