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100
A large piece of land given to a colonist by the government of Spain.
What is an encomienda?
100
Portuguese sea captain in charge of the first circumnavigation of the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
100
They gave Christopher Columbus money to sail to the Indies.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
100
The group of natives that Columbus met upon arrival in the "Indies".
What was the Taino?
200
A soldier who conquered land for Spain.
What is conquistador
200
The Spanish explorer who traveled the farthest north in the Americas.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
200
A Spanish priest who defended the rights of the Indians.
Who was Bartholome de Las Casas?
200
The Spanish troops were looking for this in Mexico.
What is gold?
300
A settlement that is ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
300
This person explored what is now Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
300
The Inca emperor conquered by the Spanish.
Who is Atahualpa?
300
The name of the new Spanish colony after Cortes defeated the Aztec.
What is New Spain?
400
The movement of plants, animals, and germs across the Atlantic Ocean that began after Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
The Spanish conquistador that defeated the Aztec.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
400
An African scout who explored the soughtwestern United States in the middle 1500s.
Who was Estevanico?
400
The job that Las Casas held.
What is a missionary?
500
A type of map that shows places or events from the past.
What is historical map?
500
The explorer that captured the Inca Empire in South America.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
500
An escaped African captive who kept his followers safe from Spanish soldiers trying to capture them.
Who was Yanga?
500
This person helped Cortes gather thousands of Indian supporters in order to defeat Moctezuma II.
Who is Dona Marina?
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