Ch. 5 Quiz

This person believed he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic ocean

• Hernan Cortes

• Christopher Columbus

• San Salvador

This country wanted to spread Christianity to the Americas

• Spain

• England

• Canada

animal brought to the Caribbean that the Caribbean Indians had never seen

• horses

• mammoths

• buffalo

leader of the Aztec Empire

• Hernan Cortes

• Moctezuma II

• Christopher Columbus

A Spanish explorer named Alonso Alvarez de ________began searching for a northern waterway to the Pacific. He was the first to map the Texas coast.

• Vaca

• Pineda

• Cortes

For several years after being shipwrecked, and part of the Narvaez expedition, explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de ______worked as a servant, a trader, and a healer. He was a healer because he removed an arrowhead from a man's chest and stitched it up (and the Indians saw him as having healing powers).

• Vaca

• Niza

North African guide killed by the Zuni villagers in 1539. He was part of the Narvaez expedition and was a translator between the Indians and the Spanish.

• Estevanico

• Columbus

• Pineda

widespread outbreaks of disease

• mustangs

• epidemic

• viceroy

Spanish adventurer (person looking for riches) whose expedition (exploration trip) ended in shipwreck (crashing) on the Texas coast. He only had 4 survivors, one being Estevanico.

• Pineda

• Narvaez

• de Niza

wild offspring (children) of Spanish horses

• mustangs

• viceroys