Vocabulary
People
Places
People II
Essay
100
A settlement that is far away from the country that rules it
What is colony
100
Italian sea captain making a voyage in 1492
What is Christopher Columbus
100
The actual place where Columbus landed
The Bahama Islands
100
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Incas
What is Francisco Pizarro
100
3 lands that made up New Spain
What is Mexico, Central America, Florida, Cuba, Hispaniola and part of South America
200
A person who teaches his religion to someone of different beliefs
What is missionary
200
Spanish monarchs that gave Christopher Columbus money and ships to travel
What is Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand
200
Where the Taino Indians lived
What is in the Caribbean Sea
200
Spanish explorer of the Southwest United States
What is Francisco Coronado
200
Name an advantage and a disadvantage of the Columbian Exchange
What is Advantage - horse Disadvantage - disease that killed the Indians
300
a Spanish conqueror who came to the Americas
What is conquistador
300
Realized that the Bahamas were not part of Asia. People began to call the the "Americas"
What is Amerigo Vespucci
300
What Columbus called the place where he landed
What is San Salvador
300
Roman Catholic missionary who opposed the treatment of the Indians in New Spain
What is Bartolome de las Casas
300
3 cultures that formed the Spanish colonial empire
What is Indian, Spanish, Africans
400
the movement of people, plants, animals, and germs across the Atlantic Ocean following Columbus' voyages
What is Columbian Exchange
400
Aztec emperor defeated by Hernando Cortes in 1520
What is Moctezuma II
400
Where Spanish explorers went in search of gold
What is Tenonchtitlan
400
enslaved African who escaped from the Spanish for 30 years
What is Yanga
400
The difference between the effects of Spanish conquests of Central America between the Spanish rulers and the Africans and Indians
What is the rulers became rich but the Indians and Africans lost their culture and land
500
A piece of land in New Spain by the Spanish Government to Spanish colonists
What is encomienda
500
Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs in 1521
What is Hernando Cortes
500
Francisco Coronado lead a groups of explorers in search of the Seven Cities of Gold
What is southwestern United States
500
stories of the fountain of youth led him to Florida
What is Juan Ponce de Leon
500
The mistake that Moctezuma made when the Spanish arrived
What is gave Spanish gifts of gold and silver making them want more
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