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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
Why did Columbus sail west?
What is to find a better way to reach the Indies?
100
He conquered the Incan Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
100
The priest that spoke out against slavery.
Who is Batolome de las Casas?
100
Imaginary lines that circle the globe in an east-west direction. They measure distances north and south of the equator.
What is lines of latitude?
100
Imaginary lines that run in a north-south direction. They measure distances east and west of the prime merdian.
What is longitude?
200
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What is a movement of people, animals, plants, diseases and ways of life?
200
Name given to the colony after Cortes defeated the Aztecs.
What is New Spain?
200
Name the first Spanish conquistador the search for gold.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
200
A friend who will help in a fight.
What is an ally?
200
A Spanish conqueror.
What is a conquistador?
300
America's name comes from this explorer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
300
Name reasons Cortes was able to defeat the Aztecs.
What is 1. the soldiers had metal armor, horses and muskets; 2. he had allies and 3. the Spanish carried the germ that causes smallpox (many Native Americans became sick and died).
300
Which Spanish conquistador was sent by the governor of New Spain after de Vaca to find Cibola?
Who is Coronado?
300
A religious settlement.
What is a mission?
300
A settlement far from the country that rules it.
What is a colony?
400
Results of the Columbian Exchange and Columbus's voyage.
What is 1. Europeans brought food, diseases and Christainity to the Native Americans. 2. Many Native Americans died , 3. Europeans learned about new foods and 4. Other Europeans now knew the way to reach the Americas.
400
Name 3 ways Spanish colonists hoped to gain wealth.
What is by starting farms, businesses and gold and silver mines?
400
Daily Double: This made Spain one of the most powerful and wealthy countries in the world in the 1600s.
What is Sapin established colonies and built profitable settlements. The profits from the plantations and mines in the colonies helped make Spain one of the ruchest and most powerful countries in the world?
400
A large farm with many workers who live on the land they work.
What is a plantation?
400
A large piece of land given by a grant to a land owner by the king of Spain.
What is an encomienda?
500
Name 3 reasons Columbus made 3 expeditions to the Americas.
What is 1. Spain wanted to find riches in the new land; 2. Spain wanted to start a colony; and 3. Spain wanted to deliver people and animals to the colony in the new land?
500
Name the leader of the Aztecs and the leader of the conquistadors that attacked the Aztecs.
Who are Moctezuma (Aztec) and Hernando Cortes (Spanish)?
500
Name the order of the colonial society from top (most powerful) to bottom (least powerful).
What is peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, Africans and Indians?
500
Daily Double: Events that led to the Columbian Exchange.
What Spain sent Columbus on a westward expedition on which he discovered the Americas. On later expeditions he brought settlers, animals and other supplies. Spain started the colony of New Spain in the Americas?
500
A journey made for a special purpose.
What is an expedition?
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