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Early Explorers

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New Spain

• Christopher Columbus discovered America for Spain in __________. Columbus thought that he could reach the Indies quicker if he sailed west. The islands that he first reached are still called the West Indies.

• Spanish soldiers, known as ____________________, came to the Americas for riches, power, wealth, and glory for Spain.

• _______________ came to the Americas to convert Native Americans to the Catholic faith since Spain was a Catholic nation. They created __________________.

Hernan Cortes

• He landed in present day_________________ with an army of 500. He met the Aztecs who welcomed him because they thought he was their legendary ________ who had sailed east many years earlier and promised to return.

• Cortes wanted the marvelous city of Tenochtitlan, so he took Montezuma (the Aztec leader) hostage. Cortes defeated the Aztec with the help of natives and renamed the city _______________, after the Aztec name for themselves. Mexico City became the ______________ for New Spain.

Cabeza de Vaca

• He was shipwrecked by a terrible storm near present day _____________________. These survivors were the _______________Europeans to enter present day Texas.

• The _____________________ helped the visitors. As a result, many of them died due to _______________ along with half of the shipwrecked. From then on, Europeans were associated with diseases to the Indians.

• Cabeza de Vaca became known as a ______________ or healer amongst the Natives. He mixed with the Natives for the next six years and learned much of the way of life and geography of Texas.

Fray Marcos Leads a New Expedition

• Cabeza de Vaca returned to Mexico and reported he saw _______________ but no gold. He told stories which he had heard about cities of gold. New Spain sent ____________, a priest, to check out the stories

• He received news of seven cities of gold known as _______________. This was in present day Arizona and New Mexico. Fray Marcos continued the expedition until he saw Cibola from and distance and returned to Mexico. Cibola was actually a _______________, but Marcos saw it at sunset and the reflection looked like gold.

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Coronado

• The Viceroy chose Francisco Vasquez de Coronado to the lead the new expedition. After 5 months, they found Cibola with only _________, stone and Zuni warriors ready to fight.

• Coronado decided to continue exploring. They found a Native American named ___________. He told them of another city of gold in present day Kansas. They went and found sticks and mud, so they killed Turk and returned home. On their way back they explored Texas and reported it as a good place for farms.

Spanish Interests Die

• With no gold in Texas, the Spanish cleared out. A few trading post and ___________________ were established, but those too were later abandoned.

French Flag over Texas

• La Salle landed on the shore of Matagorda Bay and built a ____________________. The outpost became known as Fort St. Louis after the French King.

• La Salle decided to explore leaving about ________ people to stay at the fort. He returned to find that only ______ were still alive. Others had been killed by Karankawas, starved, left by ship, or diseases had killed them.

• La Salle left the outpost with _______ colonists and headed for Quebec. (6 made it)

• Result of France in Texas

• ____________________ now had a renewed interest in East Texas. They began to explore again and lay claims.

• A later effect was that the United States considered Texas a part of ______________ and that it should be included in the Louisiana Purchase of ______________.

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