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Absolute Location

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The exact place something is
Addresses or Coordinates

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Relative location

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Explaining where a place generally is
my house is by McDonald’s

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Ogallalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala aquifer

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An aquifer under the Great Plains used for irrigation
the biggest in Texas

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Edwards Aquifer

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Provides water for the people and springs in Central Texas

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Columbian Exchange

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The transfer of food, plants, and disease between the old and new worlds

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Conquistadors

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Spanish Soldier adventures in search of gold glory

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Viceroy

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A royal governor

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What happened in 1492

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Columbus sailed the ocean blue

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What happened in 1519

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Cortez found Mexico

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What happened in 1718

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San Antonio was built to serve as a midpoint between East and West Texas by Alarcon

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Karankawa location

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Galveston to Corpus Christi

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Karankawa housing

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Portable wigwams

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Karankawa culture

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Tall nomads nice to kids had two names

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Coahuiltecan location

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South Texas northern Mexico

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Coahuiltecan housing

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Deer skin draped over branches sleepover huts

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Coahuiltecan culture

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Nomads mitotes men Hunted

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Caddo location

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East Texas Arkansas Louisiana Oklahoma

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Caddo housing

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Permanent wooden houses covered in grass that could fit 20 people

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Caddo culture

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Expert Farmers used crop rotation had confederacies matrilineal Society Texas came from them

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Jumano location

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Rio Grande

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Jumano housing

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Adobe flat roofs very close 30 to 40 people

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Jumano culture

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Painted walls made jewelry out of copper coral and turquoise

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Wichita Location

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West of Caddo along the red river and other rivers from Kansas and oklahoma

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Wichita culture

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Raccoon eyes used horses had four groups

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Tonkawa (Tonka trucks) location
Edwards plateau
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Tonkawa housing
Teepees
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Apache location
mountains and BASINS West Texas
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Apache housing
Teepees
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Apache culture
Fighters and horse riders
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Comanche location
Great Plains High Plains
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Comanche housing
Teepees
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Comanche culture
Used Buffalo and had a peace chief and war chief
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Kiowa location
North Texas Panhandle
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Kiowa housing
Teepees
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Kiowa culture
Traders last to arrive
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How many natural regions does the US have
10
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How many regions does Texas have
Four the most of any state
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coastal Plains sub regions
Piney Woods Gulf Coast Plains South Texas Plains Post Oak belt Blackland Prairie
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North Central Plains sub regions
Grand Prairie Cross Timbers rolling plains
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Great Plains sub regions
High Plains Edwards Plateau
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mountains and BASINS subregions
None :(
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I was a Catholic friar who reported wealthy cities made out of gold
Fray Marcos
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I was the Spanish explorer who took over and led the expedition across Arkansas into Texas and met the cattle Indians went back to the Mississippi River and sailed to Mexico City
Moscoso
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I established a settlement in El Paso and Santa FE New Mexico and also claim the Rio GrandE for Spain
Oñate
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I was the leader of the Aztec empire (the hot chocolate guy)
Moctezuma II
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I was the Spanish explorer who searched for gold in appalachee but found nothing half my crew left me and the other half stranded I tried to build a raft to return to Cuba but died in a storm at sea and some of my crew was Shipwrecked
Narvaez
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I was the first European to set FOOT on Texas soil
Cabeza de Vaca
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I was the Spanish explorer who started out looking for gold traveled across the southeast forgot to plant Flags Died of fever and was Dumped in the Mississippi River (SEC/ACC)
DeSoto
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I traveled across the Panhandle of Texas and saw the Palo Duro Canyon on the way to Quivira Kansas I only found CORN and grass huts
Coronado (CORNado)
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I was the Spanish explorer who conquered the aZtec empire
Cortez
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I DREW the first map of the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico (with a PEN)
PINeda
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Why were missions established
To teach Indians Spanish culture and Catholicism and also to establish presence
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Who was LaSalle (Lysol) and how did his crew end up in Texas
He was a French explorer who got lost and missed the mouth of the Mississippi
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What happened to Fort St Louis while LaSalle was gone for 6 months
Many people died from disease and attacks
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Why did the Spanish established missions in East Texas
To scare the French away
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Why did San Francisco de los Tejas fail
There weren't enough people or supplies and they blamed Spain
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What did Father Francisco Hidalgo want Spanish officials to do
Build missions in East Texas
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Why was a mission established in San Antonio who established it and when
In 1718 Martin de Alarcon established San Antonio to serve as a midpoint between East and West Texas
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Why is Jose escandon significant to Texas history
He moved Goliad to Central Texas near San Antonio and established missions along the Rio Grande he is known as the father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley
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Describe mission life
American Indian men tended crops daily pattern of worship and work uncomfortable dwellings day ended with prayer and thin cereal
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Describe Presidio life
Risky work poor equipment low wages built of adobe Stone and wood guarded the missions
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Describe settlement life
Had an alcalde and an ayuntamento/ horse racing Fandango's dances shared similarities with modern towns had a diverse population
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Presidio
Military base the guarded missions
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Mission
Religious communities established by Spanish Catholics
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Alcalde
A Spanish official who had judicial and law enforcement powers in a settlement like a mayor
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Ayuntamento
Governing Council of a Spanish settlement
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Vaquero
Cowboy
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Why were the missions at San Antonio successful compared to other missions
Because the Indians cooperated there was a presidio the location and the climate

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