TX25-26 - AoC Spanish Exploration

Read the text box provided.

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What is the name of the Texas History era that the text box is describing?

• Texas Geography and Early People

• Natural Texas and Its People

• Native Texans and their Environment

• NONE of these are correct

CULTURE GROUPS of EARLY TEXANS

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• ​​ (a)   - built adobe houses and farmed along the Rio Grande

• ​ (b)   - lived in tepee villages and relied on horses for hunting

• ​ (c)   - lived along the coastline and used dugout canoes for fishing

• ​ (d)   - hunted, fished, farmed, and traded in East Texas

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• PUEBLO
• PLAINS
• GULF
• SOUTHEASTERN

Put each of these pairs of cities into the correct region of Texas.

a

b

c

d

El Paso and Alpine

Amarillo and Lubbock

Houston and Galveston

Fort Worth and Arlington

Match the following Texas RIVERS to the correct description.

• flows through our state capital

• RED RIVER

• separates Texas and Oklahoma

• SABINE RIVER

• separates Texas and Mexico

• COLORADO RIVER

• separates Texas and Louisiana

• RIO GRANDE RIVER

Read the passage provided.

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• According to the passage, how did Native Americans feel about their environment? Explain your answer [with evidence from the passage].

Look at the map provided.

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• According to this map, the _?_?_?_?_ increases as you travel from east to west in Texas.

• elevation

• population

• rainfall

• NONE of these are correct

Columbus and Cortes both sailed for the country of -

EXPLORERS OF TEXAS HISTORY

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• * discovered North and South America in 1492 = ​ (a)  

• * conquered the Aztecs and built Mexico City = ​ (b)  

• * shipwreck survivor, lived in Texas for many years = ​ (c)  

• Cortes
• Cabeza de Vaca
• Columbus

Put these events in the correct CHRONOLOGICAL order. [hint: that's the order they happened in history]

• CORTES conquered the Aztecs in 1519 and built Mexico City

• CABEZA de VACA survived a shipwreck and spent years walking home

• COLUMBUS sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, looking for a shortcut to Asia

Which THREE [3] of these statements are true about the country of Spain?

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• YOU MUST CHOOSE THREE [3] CORRECT ANSWERS

• it won the "Reconquista" over the African Moors in 1492

• it sent explorers to the "New World" for gold, God, and glory

• it is located just south of Texas, on the other side of the Rio Grande

• it became a very wealthy nation when explorers found the Seven Cities of Gold

• it introduced new animals in Texas: cattle, horses, and other livestock