Question

Which sequence explains how events in Europe in the 1400s led to the Age of Contact in Texas in the 1500s and 1600s? Europe to Asia land routes not mapped → European traders got lost → Spanish explorers accidentally find Texas Europe to Asia land routes not mapped → European traders got lost → Spanish explorers accidentally find Texas Europeans search for sea routes to Asia → Spanish come to the Americas → Spanish conquistadores explore Texas Europeans search for sea routes to Asia → Spanish come to the Americas → Spanish conquistadores explore Texas Ottomans force traders to go by sea to Asia → Columbus makes contact with the Karankawa → Spanish settlers move to Texas Ottomans force traders to go by sea to Asia → Columbus makes contact with the Karankawa → Spanish settlers move to Texas European traders lack navigation tools to travel by land to Asia → go by sea instead → Spain discovers Texas

Answer 1

Europeans search for sea routes to Asia

→ Spanish come to the Americas

→ Spanish conquistadores explore Texas

Step-by-step explanation:

Remember, it was the dream of finding sea routes to countries in Asia (eg India) that led to the Age of Contact in Texas in the 1500s and 1600s.

For example, the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus's believed that sailing west would be a faster way to India which was found in Asia. Hence he began sailing, however, Columbus's miscalculated that he had reached India in Asia which was actually the Bahamas in the Americas. Consequently,

→ Spanish conquistadores explore Texas.