Spanish Exploration
This Italian explorer sailed for Spain and arrived in the Caribbean in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Aztec civilization was located primarily in this modern-day country.
What is Mexico?
This Spanish conquistador is famous for leading the conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
The Spanish introduced this animal, dramatically changing transportation and hunting for many Indigenous peoples.
What are horses?
Spanish explorers and conquerors who came to the Americas searching for wealth were called these.
What are conquistadors?
Spain's three major goals for exploration are remembered by these three G's.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This was the capital city of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Cortés arrived at the Aztec capital in this year.
What is 1519?
Europeans unintentionally brought this to the Americas, causing millions of Indigenous deaths.
What is disease?
This is a journey or voyage taken for a specific purpose, such as exploration.
What is an expedition?
This explorer survived being stranded and held captive and later wrote La Relación.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
Tenochtitlan was built on an island in this lake.
What is Lake Texcoco?
Cortés and his soldiers entered this Aztec capital city in 1519.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This legendary place was also known as the “Seven Cities of Gold.”
What is Cibola?
This word means a period of time with characteristics that make it different from other periods.
What is an era?
This explorer searched the American Southwest for the legendary Cities of Gold but found no gold.
Who is Francisco Vázquez de Coronado?
The Aztecs used these artificial farming islands to grow crops around Tenochtitlan.
What are chinampas?
Cortés did not defeat the Aztecs with Spanish soldiers alone. He formed alliances with these people
the Tlaxcalans?
This French explorer established Fort Saint Louis on the Texas coast.
Who is La Salle?
This was the system of trade between Europe and the Americas that began after Columbus arrived in the Caribbean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Spanish explorer made the first known map of the Gulf of Mexico.
Who is Álvarez de Pineda?
This Aztec ruler was in power when Hernán Cortés arrived in 1519.
Who is Moctezuma II?
Along with warfare and Indigenous alliances, this Old World factor devastated the Aztec population and contributed to the Spanish victory.
What is disease/smallpox?
Unlike Spain's focus on God, Gold, and Glory, France's primary exploration goal in the flashcards was participating in this economic activity with American Indians.
What is the fur trade?
This is the process of settling a new land and claiming its land, people, and resources for another country.
What is colonization?