Unit 3 (Key Figures)

An adventurous Catholic priest who led the first expedition to search for “Cibola” – he would join another expedition, just a year later, as a guide

• Hernando de Soto

• Luis de Moscoso

• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

• Estevanico

• Friar Marcos de Niza

The commander who took over an expedition after the conquistador leading them, died – he successfully returned to Spanish territory with most of his men

• Hernando de Soto

• Luis de Moscoso

• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

• Estevanico

• Friar Marcos de Niza

This Spanish conquistador’s expedition made landfall in a location close to where the Narvaez expedition had landed in 1527

• Hernando de Soto

• Luis de Moscoso

• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

• Estevanico

• Friar Marcos de Niza

A survivor of the Narvaez expedition, this enslaved person was sent on the Niza Expedition to serve as an interpreter, before being killed by the Zuni Pueblo

• Hernando de Soto

• Luis de Moscoso

• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

• Estevanico

• Friar Marcos de Niza

A Spanish conquistador whose expedition became the first European explorers to see the Grand Canyon, Llano Estacado and parts of the Texas panhandle

• Hernando de Soto

• Luis de Moscoso

• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

• Friar Marcos de Niza

An Italian sailor, _______________ _________________, was convinced such a direct route to Asia lay to the west, across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Tom Brady

• Christopher Columbus

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Hernan Cortes

The three ships Columbus set sail with on August 3rd, 1492 were named what?

• Alpha, Sigma, Beta

• Hank, Bobby, Peggy

• King, Queen, Prince

• Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

This person created extremely detailed maps that would be used by the explorers who would follow him. His men and him would be the first Europeans to see the shores of Texas. (They didn't touch grass.)

• Fray Marcos

• Hernan Cortes

• Ronald McDonald

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

This conquistador built a new city atop the ruins of the Tenochtitlan called Mexico City which became the capital of New Spain a territory that would eventually encompass Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

• Hernan Cortes

• Ricky Bobby

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

• Estevanico

In 1542, he published a memoir of his 8-year journey. It included some of the first written accounts by a European of the lands, plants, animals and Native Americans of Texas.

• Estevanico

• Hernan Cortes

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Isiah Pacheco