UNIT 3 AND $ Flashcards
Built to convert and educate Native peoples in Spanish culture and religion.
Mission
A Spanish fort or military
Presidio
A catholic priest who belongs to a religious order.
Friar
Year that Pineda saw Texas
1519
Year Cortes conquers the Aztecs
1519
Year San Antonio was established (re: settlement)
1718
Was Narvaez’s treasurer, being enslaved by the Karankawa for 2 years.
Cabeza de Vaca
Was sent to Fray Marcos de Niza “City of Gold”, only to found an adobe city, being tricked by El Turko, with another gold city called Quivira. Said that Texas land found be great for farming.
Coronado
Had the first successful surgery in the New World, (First Recorded) Spent 8 years until soldiers found him, with Estevanico helped him communicate with the Spanish. Spread rumors to the Viceroy of gold.
Cabeza de Vaca
Purpose was to find gold, but was shipwrecked and died, with some of the ship survivors on Galveston Island.
Narvaez
First to SEE and MAP Texas in 1519
Pineda
What were the two main reasons that Spanish missions failed?
Native American disinterest and disease
What is the French settlement near Matagorda Bay?
Fort St. Louis
Who asked for missions to be reopened by the France?
Hidalago
How did La Salle die?
His crewmates with him had a mutiny and murdered him.
What canyon did Coronado discover?
Palo Duro Canyon
What was the place in the Great Plains said to be filled with gold?
Quivira (REMEMBER THIS) and Cibola
What was the first mission established in Texas?
San Francisco de
los Tejas