Explorers in the New World

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Numbers / Who and When / Area They Explored / Why Did They Go?
What Were The Looking For? / What Did They Discover or Find? / What Happened to Them? What Did They Do? / What Did This Lead To?
92-93 / Cortes-1519 to 1521 / Cortes sailed from______
To the eastern coast of what is now Mexico. / Cortes was exploring the undiscovered land in which he met ______. / Cortes was told of the powerful and wealthy______who were led by______.
The Aztecs had large amounts of ______, ______, and ______. / Cortes decided to find ______and make him a subject to______. He arrived at the Aztec capital city of ______. Cortes took ______captive. Fighting broke out between the ______and the Spaniards. / After a long and brutal fight, Cortes defeated the Aztecs in ______. Many of the Aztecs were ______or ______.
Tenochtitlan laid in ______. The Spanish sent most of its treasures back to Spain. Cortes will build ______. It became the capital of ______.
94-95 / Pineda-1519 / Pineda sailed in 1519 from______into the ______of Mexico. Then sailed west from______and followed the Gulf of Mexico. / Searching for a ______waterway to the ______Ocean. / Pineda reached a large river in which he named______or______. / Pineda and his crew were the first known ______to see the ______coast. In addition Pineda was the first to map the ______Gulf of ______. / Their voyage increased the ______interest in Texas.
(95-98- It is in the section
Narvaez and the Island of misfortune”) / Cabeza de Vaca & Estevanico1528 to 1536 / Explored South, Central and Western Texas. (Follow route on map 96) / (Page 97) Cabeza de Vaca met 3 explorers. Among thses explorers was a North African named______.
The 4 men escaped set off along the coast in search of ______. / (Page 97) Estevanico’s skill at ______with Indians helped the explorers survive. In 1536, the 4 explorers came across a group of ______. / (Page 98) Cabeza de Vaca reported his ______. He said that he had seen signs of ______in the mountains. The report excited the ______or royal governor. / (Page 98) The stories excited the royal governor of New Spain. He sent a Catholic Friar named______. He selected ______to guide him through the land.
98-99 / Fray Marcos & Estevanico 1539 to 1540 / Fray Marcos and the explorers crossed what is now Arizona into New ______ / Fray Marcos got word that ______had seen a large city. They reported that they had reached one of the ______and seen people wearing______jewelry and drinking from ______cups. / Fray Marcos moved to higher ground to view the city from afar. He saw it shining in the distance, with buildings that sparkled like______. / ______angered the villagers and was killed. Fray Marcos returned to ______City and reported finding ______which the Spanish called ______. / To conquer ______the Spanish organized largest ______ever sent to ______. It was led by ______. Fray Marcos served as the guide.
Page
Numbers / Who and When / Area They Explored / Why Did They Go?
What Were The Looking For? / What Did They Discover or Find? / What Happened to Them? What Did They Do? / What Did This Lead To?
99-101 / Coronado-1540 to 1542 / New Mexico, Panhandle of Texas, Central Texas. Also OK and KS / Cibola and Quivira / Coronado reached the city that Fray Marcos had seen. He found a force of ______Indians. After a short battle, the conquerors joy did not last long. They searched the cities and did not find any______or ______. / The cities of Cibola were not legendary lost cities. They were ______Pueblo villages. The Zuni had house made of ______brick, not gold. Coronado was furious and sent Fray Marcos back to ______city in disgrace. / (Page 101) Spain felt the expedition was a ______because of no ______was found.
102 / De Soto & Moscoso Alvarado-1539 to1543 / Southeastern part of the US and
East Texas / Coronado marched to the cities of ______from the South. De Soto was looking for ______from the east. / Moscoso described Texas as a geographically varied land and described seeing a thick Black ______seeping from the ground. This would one day become the ______gold of Texas. / Returned to Mexico City and described land. No Gold or Silver was found. / The expeditions to ______had failed to produce the ______the ______desired.
103-104 / Onate-1598 to 1601 / North of Mexico to the Rio Grand, then up to Texas Panhandle and New Mexico / Onate decided to explore the northeast toward______in hopes of finding treasure where Coronado failed. / Onate also failed to find any ______. / Onate unhappily returned to New ______. / This caused the Spanish to lose ______in Texas and surrounding areas for ____years.

The effects of Spanish Exploration of Texas(p 105):

1. Gave Spain a strong ______to ______.

2. Spanish gained valuable ______of land and ______in Texas

3. Texas served as a ______between Spanish settlements,______Indians and later ______colonies.

4. Spanish exploration greatly changed the lives of American Indians due to the spread of______.

How did the horse change the lives of American Indians?

1. Could move their______more easily.

2. Some became ______or mobileto follow around the buffalo.

3. It made Indians more effective ______and ______.

Why did the sight of the seeing the Apache Indians riding horses horrify the Spanish?

115-117 / La Salle-French-1682-1687 / He canoed down the ______River to the Gulf of Mexico / La Salle planted a French flag to claim all the land for ______. La Salle would ask King Louis XIV for permission to build a settlement near the Mississippi River’s mouth. / La Salle’s expedition left France and ran into trouble. He got lost and finally came ashore in Feb 1685 at______Bay on the Texas coast. / La Salle would build
Ft. ______. Not enough food. La Sallereturned from exploring the lands and found his colony in a crisis. He would go to Canada for help. La Salle would eventually be ______by one of his own soldiers. The Fort St. Louis settlement would destroyed by______Indians. / Despite its failure, the expedition gave ______a claim to ______. It also challenged Spain’s empire north of the Rio ______.

Define Columbian Exchange (Glossary):