Age of Exploration

What were the "3 Gs" that symbolized Spain's desire to settle Texas?

• Gold, Guts, and Gorillas

• God, Guts, Glory

• Gold, God, Glory

Term given for a Spanish explorer who came to Texas looking for gold and glory

• friar

• conquistador

• priest

• governor

Explorer who sailed west for Spain for finder a shorter and cheaper trade route to India

• Columbus

• Cortes

• Coronado

• LaSalle

The first mission built in Texas was:

• San Francisco de los Tejas

• San Antonio de Valero

• Corpus Christi de la Ysleta

• La Bahia

Christopher Columbus sailed west to find a new trade route for what country?

• France

• Portugal

• England

• Spain

Who is known as the "Father of Mexican Independence" for standing up against the Spanish empire in the Americas.

• Miguel Hidalgo

• Santa Anna

• Joaquin Arredondo

• Bernardo Gutierrez

What is Cibola?

• a type of adobe home in West Texas

• a city established by Spain in the 1500s

• the fictitious "7 cities of gold"

• language used by the Karankawa in East Texas

This explorer was the first to map the Texas coast in 1819

• LaSalle

• Cortes

• Pineda

• Columbus

a military outpost or fort in Spanish Texas

• mission

• pueblo

• adobe

• presidio

The legendary location known as the 7 cities of gold

• Olympus

• Atlantis

• Cibola

• Athens