A native Italian explorer who claimed Taino lands (Hispaniola) in the name of Spain. His encounter was repeated by a wave of Spanish explorers who soon arrived in the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
A Spanish landowner in Cuba who in 1519 landed on the coast of Mexico with about 600 men, 16 horses, and a few cannons. The Aztec people thought he was their god-king Quetzacoatl.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
100
Peruvian empire which was reputed to have even more riches than the Aztecs?
What is the Inca empire?
100
The Maya and the Inca fought or rebelled for years. Native Americans throughout the Americas resisted the Spanish by preserving aspects of their own culture.
What are ways Native Americans resisted the Europeans?
100
Superior weapons, immunity to European diseases, and horses that allowed a small number of Spanish conquistadors to conquer huge Native American empires.
What are the advantages the Spanish had over Native Americans?
200
Spanish conquerors who soon arrived in the Americas. They first settled on the islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.
What are conquistadors?
200
A young Native American woman who the Spanish referred to as Dona Marina. She served as Cortes' translator and advisor.
Who is Malinche?
200
Spanish conquistador who after being inspired by Cortes' success became interested in Peru's Inca empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
200
With the wealth accumulated from silver mines in Peru and Mexico, this nation became Europe's greatest empire in the 1500s and early 1600s.
What is Spain?
200
The region or continent Spanish Conquistadors were attempting to reach that led to the "discovery" of the West Indies?
What is the East Indies or Asia?
300
Aside from advanced technology, such as weapons and horses, what other advantage did the Spanish have over Native Americans?
What is immunity?
300
The capital of the Aztec empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
300
A war fought between groups of people in the same nation.
What is a civil war?
300
It decimated the Native American population through deadly diseases, killing, and brutalization of Native American workers.
What is European exploration effect on Native American?
300
The languages spoken by Malinche.
What are Mayan, Aztec, and Spanish?
400
The Native American group of people encountered by Christopher Columbus.
Who are the Taino?
400
The Aztec emperor who was terrified of the pale-skinned, bearded Spanish strangers arriving on his empire's coast. He sent gifts of turquoise, feathers, and other goods with religious importance in hope of keeping them away from his capital city.
Who is Moctezuma?
400
This critical event led to a weakened Inca empire and was a key contributor to Pizarro's conquest of the Inca empire.
What is a bloody civil war?
400
The exploration of this continent was a product of Spain's establishment of a an empire in the Americas, dramatically changing the pattern of global encounter and connecting the world via sea routes.
What is Africa?
400
The countries of South America where Spanish forces surged across expanding Spain's growing empire.
What are Ecuador and Chile?
500
The percentage of the Native American (Taino) population in the Caribbean (West Indies) that declined as a result of diseases brought to the region as Europeans made their way inland.
What is 90 percent?
500
A formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense. Malinche helped Cortes establish these with people conquered by the Aztecs.
What is an alliance?
500
The Incan ruler who won the throne from his brother in a bloody civil war. He refused to become a Spanish vassal or convert to Christianity. He would be captured and subsequently murdered by Pizarro and the Spanish.
Who is Atahualpa?
500
Many conquered Native Americans converted to this religion in hope that their suffering would end at the hands of their Spanish conquerors, who many believed were more powerful than their native gods.
What is Christianity?
500
The year Cortes and his Indian allies would capture and demolish Tenochtitlan setting the course for Mexico City to be built upon the city's ruins.