Chapter 5 The Spanish Explore Texas

Christopher Columbus’s voyage indicated a possible sea route to Asia.

Conquistadores helped to conquer and settle lands in the Americas for Spain.

The first Spanish settlement in an area of the Americas was usually a mission.

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca mapped the coastline from Florida to Texas in 1519.

The Karankawa killed all of the Spanish who shipwrecked on an island near today’s Galveston.

Which sequence explains how events in Europe in the 1400s led to the Age of Contact in Texas in the 1500s and 1600s? Options: Europeans search for sea routes to Asia → Spanish come to the Americas → Spanish conquistadores explore Texas

What was the official name of the Spanish colonial territories in North and Central America?

What was the purpose of Pánfilo de Narváez’s expedition?

What was the effect of Cabeza de Vaca’s journey through Texas in 1535–36?

What did Cabeza de Vaca find on his journey through present-day Texas?