Vocabulary
This is a journey made for a special purpose.
What is an expedition?
This is the place where historians thought that Columbus reached first.
What are the Bahama Islands?
The person that Spain sent to South America to conquer the Incan empire.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
The person who told stories about ancient empires and survived a shipwreck.
Who was Esteban?
A group of people forming a community.
What is a society?
This is a settlement far from the country that rules it.
What is an colony?
The 3 ships that Columbus sailed to the Bahama Islands on.
What were the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
The capital of New Spain.
What is Mexico City?
The person that the governor of New Spain sent to find the cities of Cibola.
Who was Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
The place were most of the enslaved africans went to work for the Spanish.
What was Hispaniola?
These are conquerors.
What are conquistadors?
This is the person who in 1502 became the first to call the Americas a "new world".
Who is Amerigo Vespucci.
The place that Pizarro found that was the capital of a colony in Peru.
What was Lima?
A person with a Indian and Spanish background.
What is a mestizo?
A large farm with many workers who lived on the land they worked.
What is an plantation?
This is the capture or taking of something by force.
What is an conquest?
These are the people who agreed to pay for Columbus's voyage.
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
The capital city that Pizarro's forces captured.
What was Cuzco?
The priest that spoke out against the mistreatment of native peoples under the care of the church.
Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?
A religious settlement where missionaries live and work.
What is a mission?
This is a person who lives in a colony.
What is a colonists?
This is the place that Columbus was suppose to head to.
What are the West Indies.
This is the empire that controlled a huge area of land in western South America.
What was the Incan empire?
The people that the Spanish enslaved to replace the native peoples.
Who were the Africans?
An Italian man that traveled the seas in 1492.
Who was Christopher Columbus?