7th Exploration

Early Explorers of Texas

What reasons motivated many explorers to come to Texas?

Spanish Explorers

I will know why Spain sent explorers to new lands.

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​I will know what contribution different explorers gave

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​I will understand the competitive nature of exploration

​Christopher Columbus

• ​Italian Born

• ​Explorer funded by Spain

• ​Believed the earth was round and could sail WEST to arrive EAST

Open Ended

What does explore mean? Can you think of a time when you went "exploring"?

Multiple Choice

Someone who gives money to support another person or cause is called a

• patron

• conquistador

• expedition

• empire

Multiple Choice

Columbus believed that the journey across the Atlantic Ocean would take ________ days.

He was VERY wrong! It actually took more than 7 months!

• 365

• 7

• 21

• 80

Multiple Choice

What year did Christopher Columbus land in Caribbean Islands?

• 1492

• 1519

• 1521

• 1536

​Columbus

• ​Dreamed of exploring the world

• ​Thought the Earth was small

Multiple Select

Check the statements that are TRUE about Christopher Columbus:

• He dreamed of exploring the world

• He thought the earth was flat

• He thought the earth was smaller than it actually is

• He was born in Spain

​October 12, 1492

​Columbus lands on solid ground and claims the Bahamas for Spain.

Open Ended

What happened on October 12, 1492?

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

1519

• Looking for a waterway to China

• Sailed into the Gulf of Mexico

• First to see the coast of America

• Created the first known map of the Gulf Coast of Texas

• Disproved waterway to China

• ​Killed by Native Americans in 1520 but his map made it back to Spain

​MAP

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would you consider the biggest accomplishment for Pineda?

• Finding the land of America

• Making a map of the coast

• disproving a waterway to China exists

• Sending the map back to Spain before he died

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

1528 - 1536

• Crashed off of Texas coast

• built raft and ended up near Galveston

• captured by Native Americans

• escaped and lived with new tribe

• trading and healing the sick

• Traveled through Texas and Mexico

​Shipwreck

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

1540 - 1542

• Inspired by de Vaca

• led expedition to find gold

• first to travel through Panhandle of Texas

• reported Texas was good for crops but nothing else

• frustrated he never found gold and blamed the Native Americans.

• He killed them even though the King of Spain told him to treat them kindly

Golden City

Hernán Cortés

1528 - 1536

Conquered

Aztecs

​A Spanish conquistador who explored Central America, overthrew Montezuma and his vast Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.

Hernán Cortés

Multiple Choice

Spanish conquerors of the Americas are known as

• empires

• epidemics

• patrons

• conquistadors

Multiple Select

What areas were explored by the Spanish?

• Canada

• Mexico

• Southern United States

• Northern United States

Open Ended

Of all of the first explorers, which one do you think made the greatest impact on the discovery of Texas? Why?

Open Ended

What does explore mean? Can you think of a time when you went "exploring"?

Multiple Choice

Cortes landed in Texas in 1492

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Who was shipwrecked following a hurricane?

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

• BOTH Pineda and Cabeza de Vaca

Multiple Choice

Which explorer made the first map of the Gulf of Mexico and the Texas Gulf Coast?

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

• BOTH Pineda and Cabeza de Vaca

Multiple Choice

Which explorer was the first to make 'first contact' with the Texas Native Americans (Karankawas)?

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

• BOTH Pineda and Cabeza de Vaca

Multiple Choice

Which explorer was the first to write about the cultures and nature of Texas and Mexico? HIs writings inspired future expeditions.

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

• BOTH Pineda and Cabeza de Vaca

• Lizzo

Multiple Choice

In what year did Alvarez de Pineda explore and map the Texas coastline?

• 1519

• 1528

• 1541

• 1542

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT a reason for early exploration of the new world?

• gold

• gas

• glory

• God

Multiple Choice

A Spanish soldier-explorer who sought personal riches and power, as well as wealth and glory for Spain, in the conquest for the Americas

• conquistador

• missionary

• representative

• privateer

Multiple Choice

Religious settlements

• province

• stockade

• mission

• conquest

Multiple Choice

Which of the following explorers Never came to Texas:

• Pineada

• De Vaca

• La Salle

• Columbus

Multiple Choice

Who am I: I sailed the Gulf in Mexico in 1519, mapping it and claiming the land around it for Spain

• De Soto
• Cortes
• Columbus
• Pineda