Voyages of Columbus
This is the year Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas
What is 1492?
Reasons Columbus led more expeditions to the Americas, bringing with him people, animals and other supplies
What is the Spanish wanted to find riches and start a colony that would bring them profit?
Things that helped Cortez defeat the Aztecs
What are metal armor, muskets, horses and allies
This group of people were born in Spain and were the top of society
Who are the Peninsulares?
This is the name of the priest who spoke out about mistreatment of the native people
Who is Las Casas?
Reasons the Europeans wanted to go to the Indies
What is gold, spices and other goods?
This is the number of expeditions that Columbus led to the Americas
What is three?
Two allies of the Spanish people
Dona Marina and smallpox
This group of people were the second highest rank in the New Spain society
Who are the Creoles?
This was the type of work that encomienda owners required of the native people
What is farm workers, miners and servants?
This is what Columbus told the King and Queen of Spain to get them to pay for his expedition
What is he could find a faster and cheaper way to the Indies?
This was a movement of people, animals, plants, diseases and ways of life between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Aztec leader was probably killed by his own people
What is Moctezuma?
This group of people have both Indian and Spanish background
Who are the Mestizos?
This is one type of mistreatment the native people suffered while working on the encomiendas
What is working long hours, working without pay, not enough to eat, beaten by landowners?
The Nina, the Pinta and Santa Maria
What were names of Columbus's ships he used on his first voyage
Disease Europeans brought with them during the Columbian Exchange without knowing it
What is smallpox?
After the conquest of the Aztecs, the Spanish destroyed this city
What is Tenochtitlan?
This group of people had no Spanish background and had to work on the encomiendas and give crops to the owners
Who are the Indians and Africans?
A positive effect that the Catholic Missionaries had on the native people that dealt with farming
What is raising cattle and sheep?
Historians believed Columbus reached this place first
What is Bahama Islands?
The name America itself came from
What is Amerigo Vespucci?
In 1535 Spain established this colony
What is New Spain?
What is they made the landowners rich?
This group of people were brought to the Caribbean Islands by the Spanish people in 1512
Who are African slaves?