Natives
This is the land-bridge the indigenous traveled on to the Americas.
What is Beringia? (BONUS: How did they travel?)
This was the main animal in South America.
What is the llama?
Hernan Cortes brought his unit of Conquistadors to conquer this indigenous Empire.
What are the Aztecs? (BONUS: How did the Aztecs greet Cortes?)
This is what Conquistador means.
What is conqueror?
These were built to be centers of faith.
What are missions?
What continent did the natives migrate from?
What is Asia?
This was the main advantage the Spanish had over the Natives.
What are the unintentional diseases they brought over like smallpox that decimated the majority of the native population? (BONUS: Give me at least 2 more advantages)
This is the largest native city in all the Americas.
What is Cahokia? (Bonus: What state is this located in?)
This became the main motivation for Spanish exploration in the Americas.
What is the search for gold and silver... but mostly gold?
True or False: Most former Spanish colonies still speak Spanish and are Catholic.
What is TRUE?
This happened through time as the natives ADAPTED to their environments.
What are native civilizations and societies that develop farming, social structures, languages, and cities?
This conquistador was cousins with Cortes and conquered the Incas.
Who is Francisco Pizarro? (Bonus: What animal gave him the advantage over the Incas?)
These pueblos disappointed the Spanish in their search through TX, AZ, and FL.
What are the 7 Cities of Cibola?
These are the three ships Christopher Columbus sailed on.
What are the Pinta, Nina, and the Santa Maria?
True or False: The Spanish would capture natives and convert by force.
What is True?
This is the main motivation the Natives had to travel to the Americas.
What are following food sources?
This was the largest empire in the native world. It was located in Peru, South America.
What are the Incas?
The Spanish had to compete with these two European powers for land in North America.
What are FR and GB?
Juan Ponce de Leon found gold in this Caribbean island.
What is Puerto Rico? (Bonus: Describe his later obsession after this)
This is the impact disease had on the natives.
What is from 1500-1700 the amount of tribes go from 100 to 19 tribes?
True or False: The Europeans introduced slavery to the Natives.
What is FALSE? (BONUS: WHY?)
These issues put the Incas at a strong disadvantage against the Spanish.
What are smallpox and their own civil war?
These are the states that were all Spanish colonies for this time period.
What is TX, CA, AZ, FL, and NM?
This was the FIRST motivation as to why the Spanish wanted to travel west.
What is trading for spices from India/China?
This is the reason why the Spanish introduced Catholicism to the Natives.
What are the Spanish were deeply disturbed at practices like child sacrifice, sexual lawlessness, and cannibalism.