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WorksheetsSpanish Explorers Gd7 Midterm Assessment
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 12mins
His expedition north added to geographical knowledge, but found no cities of gold.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Marina
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Marcos de Niza
Estevan
His voyages discovered the Americas.
Christopher Columbus
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Marina
Marcos de Niza
Estevan
This friar claimed to have seen seven cities of gold.
Marcos de Niza
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Estevan
Marina
His expedition conquered the Aztec empire.
Estevan
Marcos de Niza
Marina
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Hernando Cortes
This black Moor, former slave, and explorer died at Hawikuh.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Estevan
Marcos de Niza
Marina
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
This Indian princess helped the Spaniards conquer Mexico.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Marina
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Estevan
Marcos de Niza
This shipwrecked Spanish explorer walked across much of North America and saw a poor land.
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Marina
Marcos de Niza
Estevan
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Which event came first? Coronado explores New Mexico or Fray Marcos and Estevan head north.
Coronado explores New Mexico
Fray Marcos and Estevan head north
Which event came first? Cabeza de Vaca travels to New Spain or Cortés conquers Mexico.
Cabeza de Vaca travels to New Spain
Cortés conquers Mexico
What was Columbus seeking on his 1492 voyage?
a water route to Cíbola
the gold of Cuba
a way to defeat the Moors
an all-water route to the Far East
Who were the conquistadors?
Aztec warriors
traders who sold goods to Indians
Spaniards who conquered vast areas of land
Franciscan missionaries
What did Coronado find at Zuni?
the Grand Canyon
six poor villages
six of the seven cities of gold
a water route to Cíbola
What did Coronado’s soldiers find?
the Grand Canyon
the pueblos of the Rio Grande Valley
the continental divide
all of these
What did El Turco say about Quivira?
It lay far to the west.
It could be reached by water.
It was on the Rio Grande.
It was rich in gold.
This term refers to the Spanish king’s agent in New Spain.
viceroy
governor
explorer
conquistador
What does the word Cíbola mean?
Which explorer first circumnavigated the globe, proving all oceans are connected?
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Marco Polo
What was the primary goal of the Spanish missions in the New World?
To find gold
To convert Indigenous peoples to Christianity
To establish trade routes with Asia
To map the geography of the New World
Which treaty divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain?
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Westphalia
The Treaty of Utrecht
