Unit 2 Texas Explorers

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Across
  1. 3. Explored what is now Texas, Oklahoma to Kansas. First to record European discovery of the Grand Canyon.
  2. 6. Spain's reasons for exploring the Americas.
  3. 7. Spain's highest ranking official in the Americas and represents the monarch.
  4. 9. Founder of New Mexico which was Spain's most important outpost.
  5. 10. He wrote about Texas.
Down
  1. 1. The first person to map the coastline of Texas in 1519.
  2. 2. The name of the book about Texas.
  3. 4. He conquered the Aztecs for Spain and made the land Mexico.
  4. 5. His accidental discovery of the Americas lead to more Conquestadors to the Americas.
  5. 8. French explorer whose fort in Texas made Spain build presidios & missons there.