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Spanish Exploration

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which Spanish explorer mapped the Gulf of Mexico?

a)

Pizarro

b)

Cabeza de Vaca

c)

Pineda

2.

1519- What happened?

a)

Cabeza de Vaca drank out of a horse leg

b)

Pineda mapped the Gulf of Mexico

c)

Pizarro taught the natives French

d)

Go, Spurs, Go!

3.

Which European superpower has this flag?

a)

Spain

b)

China

c)

England

d)

France

4.

Cortes conquered these people.

a)

English

b)

Comanche

c)

Aztecs

5.

Six Flags Over Texas: These are two of them.

a)

U.S. and Venezuela

b)

Spain and France

c)

Spain and Russia

d)

Spain and JMS

6.

What do these conquistadors have in common? Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca, Cortes, Pizarro

a)

They all sailed together and are pals.

b)

Go, Spurs, Go! 1519 Spurs roster!!

c)

They're from SPAIN.

d)

They stayed home. No desire to leave. None.

7.

Motivation for European explorers to explore.

a)

G: Gosh! That's cool!

b)

G: Goodness Sakes Alives!!!

c)

2 Gs: Gucci and Glory

d)

3 Gs: God, Gold, Glory

8.

The original motivation for westward exploration.

a)

Let's go shopping!

b)

Spices cha-ching!!!

c)

vacation

9.

The New World

a)

Europe, Asia, Middle East

b)

Peru

c)

North and South America

10.

The back and forth exchange of plants, animals, diseases, ideas, cultures between the Old World and the New World.

a)

exploration

b)

Stock Exchange

c)

Columbian Exchange

d)

souvenirs

11.

Europeans were searching for ________ in the New World.

a)

spices

b)

riches

c)

Fiesta Texas

12.

The Age of Contact included which of the following events?

a)

Sailors sailed around the tip of Africa.

b)

Europeans met natives in the New World for the first time.

c)

Mexico overthrew Spain in the Mexican Revolution.

d)

Texas became the 28th state of the U.S.

13.

What do these places have in common? San Antonio, San Angelo, El Paso, Pecos River

a)

They're Spanish names.

b)

They're French names.

c)

They're English names.

14.

I conquered the Aztecs. Who was I?

a)

Cabeza de Vaca

b)

Cortes

c)

Pizarro