Wanted to teach Catholic beliefs and work skills to native people

Some became CITIES

Some failed due to sickness and DISEASE

Alamo, Concepceion, San Jose, San Juan, Espada

First person to WRITE ABOUT the environment of TEXAS making detailed accounts of the American Indian tribes he encountered

Lived among Indians for several years 

Began the legend about the Seven Cities of Gold and made Spanish eager to explore

A Frenchman.

His colonization attempts caused SPAIN to reclaim Texas and settle it.

Reason why Spain settled Texas

First European to explore Palo Duro Canyon

Searched for SEVEN CITIES of GOLD

First person to travel across the northern part of Texas and explore it.

He also determined that Texas did not have gold.

When a group of people from one country who build and SETTLE in another territory, or land.

He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he stumbled upon AMERICA.

New Land

Wealth

Religion

Located on the RIO GRANDE RIVER, just south of Eagle Pass on the TEXAS/Mexico border in western Maverick County

Tribes/groups had a chief to lead warriors and other chiefs to make decisions and solve problems in times of peace.

FIERCE WARRIORS

The practice of LIVING in ONE PLACE for a long time.

Native Americans used all the parts of the animal and let nothing go to waste, and it served as their main sources of FOOD, SHELTER and CLOTHING.

Some American Indian cultures settled living in buildings constructed of this kind of brick made of mud and straw.

People who MOVED AROUND A LOT. 

Hunter-gatherer tribes follow the animals they hunt, carrying tents with them.

The ancestors of the American Indian groups in both Texas and North America are generally considered to have entered the Americas from Asia by way of this land bridge sometime during the late glacial epoch.