Conquistadors
This conquistador first traveled alongside Columbus.
Who was Ponce de Leon?
This is a piece of land that extends into the water.
What is a penninsula?
This was the cause of the greatest decline in Native American population.
What are diseases.
This European was the first to set foot in Florida.
Who was Ponce de Leon?
This conquistador took down the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernando Cortez?
This is family member that lived long ago.
What is an ancestor?
Pizarro and his army hid to capture this Incan ruler.
Who was Atahualpa?
This is the capital of the Inca Empire.
What is Cuzco?
This conquistador didn't find gold, but he did claim much of the southeastern part of America for Spain.
Who was DeSoto?
This is place where people met to trade goods.
What is a trading post?
This conquistador used cannons and horses to scare the natives.
Who was Cortes?
De Soto searched this part of the Americas looking for gold.
What is the southeast? (Florida, Georgia, S.Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana)
Mocktezuma thought this conquistador was Quetzalcoatl.
Who is Cortes?
This is a place that is settled a long distance from its ruling country.
What is a colony?
The Turk told this conquistador of a country, Quivira, filled with gold and fish larger than horses.
Who was Coronado?
A statue of Pizarro stands in this city and country for defeating the Inca Empire.
Where is Lima, Peru?
This conquistador did not keep his promise of freedom for Atahualpa even though he was given a room filled with gold.
These teachers try to convert other people to their religion.
Who are missionaries?
Friar Marcos sent this conquistador on a wild goose chase, looking for the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who was Coronado?
This conquistador was shipwrecked on the coast of Texas.
Who is Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?