What motivated Spanish explorers to want to travel to Texas?
Fascinated by Cabeza de Vacaโs account and enticed by the potential riches in the area, other Spanish explorers left for Texas in hopes of finding treasure.
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What does this sentence mean? Under the Spanish crown, distinctions between religious and secular power were blurred.
There was no separation of church and state. โthe foundations of a strategy to subdue and control the land and the people in what is now Texas.
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From the map, What place names do you recognize? Can you find Texas? What year was this map created?
should be able to locate Texas' general location, recognize the word Mexico and realize this is not in English and was created in 1750 from the bottom left
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Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the New World
viceroy
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The French explorer, Renรฉ Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, set out for the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. He left France in 1684 with the intention of establishing a French fort at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
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a settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people in the area
mission
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travel undertaken in order to discover new resources
exploration
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Few survivors remained after the battleโs end on March 6, 1836, but the Texian cause would use the defeat as the morale-boosting cry of โRemember the Alamo!โ to inspire their forces in future conflicts.
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secular
not pertaining to or connected with religion
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a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas
conquistador
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a military post or guarded settlement in an area under Spanish control
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state-sponsored settlement of people to new territories
colonization
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La Salle did establish a fort, which was built along Garcitas Creek far from the Mississippi. Was it a success or failure?
Failure. He was murdered by his own men, and by 1689, disease, hunger and attacks from the neighboring Karankawa had killed almost all of the remaining members