a time Spain when built missions and presidios to establish control of Texas

• Age of Contact Era

• Spanish Colonial Era

• Mexican National Era

• Native Texas and Its People

A time when Spanish and French explorers both claimed land in Texas and made first contact with the Native Americans of Texas

• Native Texas and Its People

• Mexican National Era

• Age of Contact Era

• Spanish Colonial Era

A Spanish explorer AND soldier

• Navigator

• Conquistador

• Friar

• Priest

Reasons for European Exploration

• Goodwill, Gold, and Goods

• Gold, God, and Government

• Gold, God, and Glory

• Gold, God, and Germs

European countries that sent explorers to Texas

• Spain and England

• Spain and Germany

• Spain and France

• France and England

importance of the date 1519

• Coronado mapped the coast of Texas

• Pineda mapped the coast of Texas

• Cabeza de Vaca published a journal, "La Relacion"

• La Salle established Fort St. Louis

Explorer who Shipwrecked on Galveston Island in 1528 and kept a journal of his travels called "La Relacion."

• Fray Damian Massanet

• Coronado

• Pineda

• Cabeza de Vaca

Explored the Texas Panhandle looking for Cibola and the 7 cities of Gold

• Coronado

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Pineda

• La Salle

French explorer who established Fort St. Louis near present-day Matagorda Bay later killed by his own men

• Pineda

• La Salle

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Coronado

building Missions to convert Natives

• French method of colonization

• Spanish method of colonization

• English method of colonization

• German method of colonization