Spanish Explorer's Quiz

Which explorer was the first to map the coast of Texas?

• Pineda

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Cortes

• Narvaez

This explorer's success in conquering the Aztecs encouraged further exploration of the new world.

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Hernando de Soto

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernan Cortes

He was searching for a western route to Asia and discovered a new world?

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando de Soto

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

• Cabeza de Vaca

This explorer survived a shipwreck and lived with the Karankawa for a long time.

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Fray Marcos

• Hernan Cortes

• Christopher Columbus

This explorer led 400 men on his expedition and only four survived.

• Narvaez

• Cortes

• Pineda

• Fray Marcos

This explorer was the first to search for the cities of gold and conquered the Zuni Indians?

• Coronado

• Moscoso

• Cortez

• de Soto

I was searching for a northern waterway to the Pacific, I sailed the gulf coast, and thought I found the Rio Grande River. I was the first explorer to see Texas.

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernan Cortes

• Panfilo de Narvaez

I was an African Slave to Cabeza de Vaca, I later traveled with Fray Marcos.

• Narvaez

• Pineda

• Estevanico

• Columbus

I was a survivor of the Narvaez expedition and I wrote a narrative about my journey once I escaped the Karakawa Indians and returned to Mexico City.

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Fray Marcos

• Coronado

• Moscoso

I was searching for gold when I caught a fever and died. My friend Luis de Moscoso took over my expedition.

• Hernando de Soto

• Cabaza de Vaca

• Vasquez de Coronado

• Christopher Columbus