Chapter 5

Question 1

Why did Spain want a new trade route to Asia/India?

Answer 1

Tired of walking from Europe to India AND the Ottoman Empire was a problem.

Question 2

What year did Christopher Columbus set off and who was he financed by?

Answer 2

1492, and Spain.

Question 3

What did Christopher Columbus find on his journey?

Answer 3

The Caribbean islands.

Question 4

Why did Spain send out more explorers to the Americas?

Answer 4

C.C. Had found new land, and they figured this land was filled with resources, and gold.

Question 5

What European explorer conquered the Aztecs?

Answer 5

Hernan Cortes

Question 6

What was Hernan Cortes’s main accomplishment?

Answer 6

He established a foothold for Spain in central Mexico.

Question 7

Which European explorer mapped the TX coastline? Was this his main accomplishment?

Answer 7

De Pineda

Question 8

Which explorer was shipwrecked and helped by the Karankawa?

Answer 8

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 9

How long did Cabeza de Vaca look for central Mexico? What did he learn on his journey?

Answer 9

10 years, stories of cities of gold.

Question 10

Which explorer launched Spanish interest in TX?

Answer 10

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 11

Which explorer launched the Age of Contact?

Answer 11

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 12

Which explorer spent 2 years exploring TX and what was their motive?

Answer 12

De Coronado, gold.

Question 13

What is the story of the Turk?

Answer 13

Helped de Coronado find the golden city, but brought him to a town of sticks and mud. He was executed.

Question 14

Which explorer explored the mountains and basins region? What was the specific place you need to name?

Answer 14

De Onate, the Rio grade valley

Question 15

What is the name of La Salle’s settlement?

Answer 15

Fort St. Louis

Question 16

What path did La Salle take (and what detours) to end up in Gracitas Creek? What is the reason for ending up there? How many miles off was La Salle? What type of leader was La Salle?

Answer 16

Canada, down the Mississippi River, to the delta. To France for resources, then back (he missed the delta by 400 miles and ended up in Gracitas Creek) He was an awful leader and navigator.

Question 17

What’s the name of La Salle’s ship that’s was wrecked?

Answer 17

La Belle

Question 18

How was La Salle killed, and how were the rest of the people in his settlement killed?

Answer 18

Mutiny, murdered by the karankawa, disease, and lack of supplies.

Question 19

What’s La Salle’s major accomplishment?

Answer 19

First French settlement in TX (even though it failed.)