Review Questions from Explorers

Updated Nov 2010

Questions-First explores of TX

Update Nov 2010

Don Juan de Onate is important to Texas history because

• brought Spanish horse to Texas• established the first Thanksgiving feast in

the New World.• brought back much gold and silver.• founded the first European settlement in

Texas.d. founded the first European settlement in Texas.

Who was the Aztec leader?

• Quetzalcoatl

• Montezuma

• Cabeza de Vaca

• La Tomab. Montezuma

From your timeline, who was the first Spaniard to sail the coastline of Texas?

• Alonzo de Pineda

• Balboa

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Coronadoa. Alonzo de Pineda

Tenochtitlan is what city today?

• Mexico City.

• Veracruz

• Monterey

• Cancuna. Mexico City.

What mistake did Montezuma make?

• He gave women to the soldiers.• He promised to make the men gods.• tried to buy off the army with gold, silver,

and gems.• Showed the soldiers his army-strength

and weaknessesc. tried to buy off the army with gold, silver, and gems.

All were reasons the Spanish conquered the Aztecs EXCEPT

• deadly smallpox virus had killed many of the Aztec people.

• Spanish had modern weapons• Spanish had horses• All helped to conquer the Aztecs

a.$14,000

The conquistador who invaded the Aztec empire

• La Salle• de Pineda• Coronado• Cortéz

d. Cortéz

Quiz Early Explorers

What below from the exploits of Cabeza de Vaca led other to explore TX?

• describe Tx land as being fertile.

• Natives were general friendly.

• Tx could be part of greater Spain

• brought back word of Seven cities of Gold.d. brought back word of Seven cities of Gold.

What below help Cabeza de Vaca survive?

• claimed to be a shaman.

• claimed to be a member of royalty.

• claimed to be an explorer.

• claimed to be a god.

a. Claimed to be a shaman

What did Cabeza de Vaca call Galveston?

• Paradise

• Malhado … island of Misfortune

• Land of milk and honey

• Cibola

b. Malhado … island of Misfortune

On what island was Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked?

• Padre Island

• Galveston Island

• Matagorda Island

• Tiki Islandb. Galveston Island

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Quiz Spanish Explorers

Updated Nov.2010

The first Aztecs welcomed Cortés because they thought he was

• the King of Spain. • a French explorer.• a Pawnee chief.• the god Quetzalcoatl. d. the god Quetzalcoatl.

Cabeza de Vaca described Texas as being

• a barren desert. • wet and swampy. • cold and ugly.• very fertile.

d. very fertile.

The first European to explore the Texas coast

• La Salle• de Pineda• Coronado• Marcos

b. de Pineda

The conquistador who invaded the Aztec empire

• La Salle• de Pineda• Coronado• Cortéz

d. Cortéz

A governor of a region who represents the monarch is a

• conquistador. • viceroy. • friar.• king or queen.

b. viceroy.

Quiz Questions

The Spanish were amazed by the “cows” of the plains because

the animals had no horns. Plains people raised them.the animals were so small. the herds were so large.

D. the herds were so large.

A village with connected, flat-roofed buildings is called

• an adobe. • a pineda. • a mission.• a pueblo.

d. a pueblo.

Coronado’s troops often lost their way in North Texas because

• the grass became erect after they walked upon it. • they failed to leave signs as they went. • the plains were so level that the sky appeared “like a

bowl.”• buffalo trampled their tracks.

•C. the plains were so level that the sky appeared “like a bowl.”

The Spanish explorer who searched for Cibola or Quivera was

• La Salle• Coronado• Cortés• Pineda

b. Coronado

The first explorer sent to check on stories of Cíbola

• de Pineda• Coronado• Cortés• Fray Marcos

d. Fray Marcos

In 1609, Spaniards set up a permanent colony and named it

• New Mexico. • Colorado• Arizona• Malhado.

a. New Mexico.

The tribe that killed Estevanico was the

• Aztecs. • Zuñis. • Pawnees.• Wichitas.

b. Zuñis.

An area supposedly rich with gold, silver and precious gems was

• Tiguex. • Veracruz. • Cíbola.• Santa Fe.

c. Cíbola.

When Spanish explorers reached Cibola or Quivera, they found

• a lost Spanish settlement. • treasures of gold and silver. • a poor Native American settlement.• a French trading post.

c. a poor Native American settlement.

Quiz Questions

The Spanish were amazed by the “cows” of the plains because

the animals had no horns. Plains people raised them.the animals were so small. the herds were so large.

D. the herds were so large.

A village with connected, flat-roofed buildings is called

• an adobe. • a pineda. • a mission.• a pueblo.

d. a pueblo.

Coronado’s troops often lost their way in North Texas because

• the grass became erect after they walked upon it. • they failed to leave signs as they went. • the plains were so level that the sky appeared “like a

bowl.”• buffalo trampled their tracks.

•C. the plains were so level that the sky appeared “like a bowl.”

The Spanish explorer who searched for Cibola or Quivera was

• La Salle• Coronado• Cortés• Pineda

b. Coronado

The first explorer sent to check on stories of Cíbola

• de Pineda• Coronado• Cortés• Fray Marcos

d. Fray Marcos

In 1609, Spaniards set up a permanent colony and named it

• New Mexico. • Colorado• Arizona• Malhado.

a. New Mexico.

The tribe that killed Estevanico was the

• Aztecs. • Zuñis. • Pawnees.• Wichitas.

b. Zuñis.

An area supposedly rich with gold, silver and precious gems was

• Tiguex. • Veracruz. • Cíbola.• Santa Fe.

c. Cíbola.

When Spanish explorers reached Cibola or Quivera, they found

• a lost Spanish settlement. • treasures of gold and silver. • a poor Native American settlement.• a French trading post.

c. a poor Native American settlement.

Quiz-The Conquistadores Come to Tx

An enclosure of posts made to form a defense

• stockade• Malhado• Tenochtitlan• castle

a. stockade

Island near present-day Galveston … Cabeza de Vaca named the “isle of misfortune”

• Cozumel• Malhado• Tenochtitlan• Yucatan

b. Malhado

A person belonging to one of the religious brotherhoods of the Catholic Church

• viceroy• friar• Quetzalcoatl• conquistador

a. viceroy

Which one of the following was NOT a goal of the Spanish in exploring the New World?

• to make their country more powerful• to gain wealth for themselves• to spread Christianity• defeat the English

d. defeat the English

At first, the Aztecs welcomed Hernan Cortes because they thought he was

• the god Quetzalcoatl.• a French explorer.• a friendly trader.• the king of Spain.

a. the god Quetzalcoatl.

When Cabeza de Vaca became shipwrecked off the coast of Galveston, he survived by

• building a stockade.• adopting the ways of the Karankawas.• using supplies from the ship.• walking across Texas to the nearest mission.

b. adopting the ways of the Karankawas

I am Spanish. I was put in charge of an expedition to find seven cities of gold. Though I found no gold, my men were the first to see the Palo Duro and Grand Canyons. Who am I?

• Juan de Onate• Antonio de Mendoza• Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

d. Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

Led expedition in Southwest from 1640 to 1642 looking for Seven Cities of Cibola. I returned to Mexico when mission failed .

• La Salle• Coronado• Estevanico• Cabeza de Vaca

b. Coronado

How did the Aztecs react when Cortez arrived at Tenochtitlán?

A. They attacked his army and killed many men.B. They hid their wealth from Cortez and his

men.C. They welcomed him, thinking he was an Aztec

god.D. They retreated to a safer location.

c. They welcomed him, thinking he was an Aztec god.