Age of Contact

Spanish explorer ______________________________ spent years wandering around Texas and living with the Karankawa and other Indians.

• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Luis de Moscoso Alvarado

Which explorer wrote a book, was a surgeon, and was shipwrecked?

• Cabeza de Vaca
• De Soto
• De Leon
• Pineda

Which explorer mapped the Texas coast, and in what year?

• La Salle-1685
• Columbus-1492
• Pineda-1519
• Cabeza de Vaca-1528

What were the main reasons of European exploration to the Americas?

• Help spread diseases to Native Americans
• Get rich, spread the Catholic religion, & get fame & glory
• Bring new ideas & technology to the Americas
• Test new shipping across the Atlantic

What explorer created this map in 1519?

• Christopher Columbus
• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
• Panfilo de Narvaez
• Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

What explorer is from France?

• Cortes
• La Salle
• Pineda
• Coronado

Cabeze de Vaca explored and ended up 

• slave and medicine man to indians 
• finding the mississippi river 
• created the first map of texas 

Coronado explored for 

• to take over indian lands 
• 7 glittering cities of gold 
• capture tenochtitlan 
• mississippi river 

In 1519 Pineda 

• created the first map of texas 
• looking for 7 cities of gold 
• was a slave to the indians 
• captured Tenochtitlan

cortes  explored for 

• Religion 
• Gold 
• created first map 
• capture tenochtitlan