What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
100
The capital city of the Aztecs.
What is Tenochtitlan?
100
The legendary cities of Cofitachiqui and Cibola were supposedly made of this.
What is gold?
100
The European man who "discovered" America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The exchange of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
Where Columbus was trying to reach by sailing west.
What is India?
200
The man who conquered the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
The name for a huge grant of land given to high-ranking Spanish men.
What is an encomienda?
200
A Catholic missionary who fought for better treatment for native people in the Americas.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
300
The ancient capital of the Aztec Empire, now buried under Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlan?
300
The king and queen of Spain who paid for Columbus' expedition.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
300
The ruler of the Aztecs.
Who is Moctezuma?
300
The main thing Bartolome de las Casas did.
What is try to create better working conditions for native peoples?
300
A Native American woman who was an ally of Cortes and translated for him.
Who is Dona Marina?
400
The capital city of Peru, founded by Pizarro after he defeated the Incan Empire.
What is Lima?
400
Name three things brought from Europe to the Americas in the Colombian Exchange.
What are diseases, guns, horses, steel, livestock, or sugarcane?
400
Name three things that helped the Spanish conquer the Aztecs.
What is steel armor, guns, horses, or Native American allies?
400
The first place enslaved Africans were brought in the Americas.
What is the island of Hispaniola?
400
A man who led an expedition to find the legendary city of Cibola in the American Southwest.
Who is Francisco Vazquez de Coronado?
500
The man who led the first Spanish expedition to the American Southwest, a journey of eight years.
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
500
Name three things brought from the Americas to Europe in the Columbian Exchange.
What is cocoa, beans, potatoes, tomatoes, corn, or turkeys?
500
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
500
Name the four main classes of society in New Spain.
What is peninsulares at the top, creoles in the middle, mestizos at the bottom, and native peoples and slaves outside society?
500
An African sailor who had been enslaved who traveled with the first European expedition through the American Southwest and brought back tales of a city of gold.