Transcript Review Questions from Explorers

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 Toma
b. Montezuma
From your timeline, who was the first
Spaniard to sail the coastline of Texas?
• Alonzo de Pineda
• Balboa
• Cabeza de Vaca
• Coronado
a. Alonzo de Pineda
Tenochtitlan is what city today?
• Mexico City.
• Veracruz
• Monterey
• Cancun
a. 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
weaknesses
c. 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
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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 Island
b. Galveston Island
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Quiz Spanish Explorers
Updated Nov.2010
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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
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La Salle
de Pineda
Coronado
Marcos
b. de Pineda
The conquistador who invaded the
Aztec empire
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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.
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the animals were so small.
the herds were so large.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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.