Early Explorers of Texas Review

Who encouraged other explorers to search for gold and treasures in the new world?

• Cabeza de Vaca

• de Pineda

• Coronado

• la Salle

Correct Answer

Who studied and mapped the Texas coastline in 1519?

• de Pineda

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Onate

• la Salle

Who led a two-year unsuccessful expedition in search of riches and was led by "the Turk" in search of Quivira?

• Coronado

• Onate

• la Salle

• de Pineda

Who led an expedition to settle the upper Rio Grande valley and founded Santa Fe?

• Onate

• Coronado

• de Pineda

• la Salle

Who was the first French explorer to enter the area that is now Texas and built a settlement called Fort St. Louis?

• la Salle

• Coronado

• de Pineda

• Onate

The Rio Grande valley settlement founded after Onate's expedition was...

• Santa Fe

• Tenochtitlan

• Malhado

• Quivira

What was the name of the Aztec city conquered by Hernan Cortes? (Mexico City was built on its ruins)

• Tenochtitlan

• Malhado

• Quivira

• Santa Fe

What was the name of the island where Panfilo de Narvaez's expedition was shipwrecked?

• Malhado

• Quivira

• Santa Fe

• Fort St. Louis

What was the name of the city described to Francisco Vasquez de Coronado as filled with treasure? (Hint: the Turk said he would lead Coronado to it)

• Quivira

• Fort St. Louis

• Malhado

• Santa Fe

What was the name of the French settlement founded by la Salle?

• Fort St. Louis

• Malhado

• Santa Fe

• Tenochtitlan