Unit 1: Age of Contact- European Explorers

All of these are apart of the Columbian Exchange except

• Religion
• pigs
• cows
• potatoes

In 1519 Pineda 

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

Cabeze de Vaca explored and ended up 

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

In 1519 Cortes

• conquered the Aztecs

• looking for 7 cities of gold

• was a slave to the indians

• discovered and wrote about the American Buffalo.

Coronado explored for 

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

cortes explored for

• God, promote Catholicism

• Gold, 7 cities of Gold

• created first map

• Glory, conquering a rich native people group

Spanish reasons for Exploration were all of these except

• Gold

• God

• Goal of fur trade

• Glory

France reasons for exploration

• Religion, to make King Louis a God the people of the new world would worship

• Fur Trade, think of all of the tiger pelts they could have

• Gold, they were going to establish their own city of Gold in New Orleans

• Claim land in the name of their King

What region has the cities of Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, and Corpus Christi?

• Mountains and Basins
• High Plains
• Coastal Plains
• Central Plains

Texas Region with flat, treeless plains and grasslands, Palo Duro Canyon?

• Coastal Plains
• North Central Plains
• Great Plains
• Mountains and Basins