Regions of Texas and Native Texans

How did horses get to North America

• Spanish brought them

• They were already here

• They crossed the land-bridge from Asia

• Brought up from Mexico

How did the first Americans (Native Americans) get to North America?

• By horseback

• In a sled

• By crossing a land-bridge

• From Spain

Where did the name "Texas" originate?

• Spanish explorers named it after a region in Spain

• Named after a Spanish explorer

• Caddo tribe meaning "friendship"

• Apache word for "plains"

What did the Apache and Comanche tribes use to make them such skilled fighters?

• Resistance to European diseases

• Horses

• Belief in the afterlife

• Guns

What is a characteristic of a Native Texan group that is nomadic?

• Sedentary

• Hunters/Gatherers

• Adobe villages

• Farmers

How did the Spanish generally affect Native American tribes?

• Fought over food sources

• Got along and were friends

• Introduced Native Americans to new food sources like cattle

• United all the Native American tribes

Which tribe is described: Lived in Mountains and Basins, Sedentary, Farmers, Lived in adobe houses

• Jumano

• Comanche

• Apache

• Caddo

Describe the mountains and basins region?

• Desert and little rain

• Lots of rain

• Lots of hills and prairies

• Access to water

What do you know about the Coastal region of Texas?

• Doesn't rain a lot

• Most populated

• Lots of tornados

• Snows a lot

If you did not like rain, you would not want to move to this region

• Mountains and Basins

• Coastal Region

• North Central Plains

• Great plains