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Exploration Vocab
European Exploration of Texas Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Absolute Chronology | A chronology that gives the age of a feature or event in years. |
Coast | The land near a shore. |
Conflicting Territorial Claims | A territorial argument |
Defining | to determine or identify the essential qualities or meaning of |
Characteristics | a distinguishing trait, quality, or property |
Eras | a fixed point in time from which a series of years |
Gold | a yellow metallic element that occurs naturally in pure form and is used especially in coins |
Historians | a student or writer of history |
Major Eras | A fixed point in time. |
Mapping | The act of illustrating geographical features of an area. |
Relative Chronology | A chronology that gives the age of a feature or event relative to the age of other features or events |
Settlement | where people establish a community |
1519 | Alonso Alvarez de Pineda was the first known European to explore and map the Texas coastline. |
Era:Age of Contact | Is the wave of exploration that began when Christopher Columbus found North America. |
de Pineda | In 1519, he led out some expeditions to map the gulf of Mexico |
de Vaca | In 1527, de Vaca left his home on an expedition but then was stranded with about 250 men and only 3 including him survived. |