Where did jolliet and marquette primarily explore? a. texas b. the upper mississippi river valley c. lower louisiana d. the st. lawrence river

B would be the answer because they were mapping the Mississippi river.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.