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KEY Chapter 4 Review Sheet:
Exploration
Be able to define or identify the following words:
1. La Salle: the leader of the French outpost in Texas
2. Pineda: first European to explore the Texas coast
3. Coronado: explorer who searched for Quivira
4. Cortes: conquistador who invaded the Aztec empire
5. Marcos: friar sent to check on stories of Cibola
6. Quivira: land thought to be rich in gold and silver
7. Zuni: Native American tribe that killed Esteban
8. Malhado: island near present-day Galveston that explorers named the “isle of misfortune”
9. Mexico City: capital of New Spain
10. Tenochtitlan: capital of the Aztec people
11. Moscoso: continued De Soto’s expedition after his death at the Mississippi River
12. Friar: a member of the Catholic religious order, they came to win an empire for God.
13. Estaban: first black man in Texas who accompanied Cabeza de Vaca
14. Cabeza de Vaca: he spent 6 years with the Indians of Texas, and provided the first Spanish glimpse of the land
15. Mission: a religious settlement
Be able to answer the following questions:
16. Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to see what? Huge “cows” or buffalo
17. Coronado killed Turk when he found there was no gold in Cibola.
18. Did Hernan De Soto return to Spain in 1542 with Great wealth? No
19. Spain lacked interest in Texas because there was no treasure like they had found in Mexico City.
20. The City of Cibola was actually a Zuni Village
21. La Salle was the first European to lead an expedition down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
22. Describe La Salle’s 2nd expedition. 4 ships left France with 300 colonists; one ship was captured by Spanish pirates; the ships missed the mouth of the Mississippi River
23. What is a viceroy? An official who represents a monarch
24. How did Cabeza de Vaca survive after shipwrecking in Galveston? Adopting the ways of the Karankawa
25. What are conquistadores? The Spanish soldiers who sought wealth & glory
26. Why did the Spanish have an interested in East Texas? Because of La Salle’s interest in the area
27. What was the name of the outpost built in Texas by La Salle? Fort St. Louis
28. What is a mission? The first Spanish settlement in Texas
29. What did La Salle call the land that was drained around the Mississippi River? Louisiana
30. What did the Spanish find in Quivira? A Native American settlement
31. How did Cabeza de Vaca describe Texas? Very fertile
32. Why did the Aztec welcome Cortes? The God Quetzalcoatl
33. How did Coronado’s men describe the plains? The plains were so level that the sky appeared “like a bowl” over them.
Map—You will have to label the following on a map:
Arkansas River Cibola Gulf of California Cabeza’s Route
Mississippi River Composteria Gulf of Mexico Coronado’s Route
Red River Mexico City Atlantic Ocean De Soto’s Route
Rio Grande River Quivira Moscoso’s Route
Tampico Narváez’s Route