They were Spanish conquerors who came to the Americas in the 1500s. Hernando Cortes was one.
Who were the conquistadors?
100
These were forts where soldiers lived. In side the high, thick walls were shops stables and storehouses for food.
What were /are presidios?
100
This continent was first visited by the Vikings about 1000 years ago.
What is North America?
100
The number of social classes in New Spain
What is four?
200
Land grants that the Spanish government gave settlers and which included the ability to tax or require Indians to work for the Spaniards.
What are encomiendas?
200
They were at the top of the social scale in New Spain. They held the highest jobs in government and the Church. They owned land and gold or silver mines.
Who were the peninsulares?
200
These settlements were run by Catholic priests and friars whose goal was to convert Indians to Christianity.
What are / were missions?
200
The number of continents
What is seven?
200
These treasures were mined by Indian slaves and sent across the Atlantic Ocean to make Spain rich.
What are silver and gold?
300
This territory or land is separate from but subject to a "parent nation" which rules it. The word sometimes just refers to the people in this settlement.
What is a colony?
300
These wealthy and well-educated people were born in North, Central or South America and had Spanish parents.
Who were the creoles?
300
A large estate farmed by many workers
What is a plantation?
300
The number of earth's oceans
What is four?
300
Father Bartholomew de Las Casas wanted to protect the Indians of the Americas from dying from disease and from being treated so poorly on farms. He made this suggestion which has proven to be tragic.
What is to bring Africans to work as laborers to the New World (or to New Spain)?
400
This journey or voyage made by the Spanish explorers sometimes ended in disaster. In 1528 a storm struck a Spanish fleet in the Gulf of Mexico killing some and leaving other survivors as prisoners of the Indians in Texas.
What is an expedition?
400
These people were of mixed Spanish and Indian background. They were farmers and ranchers in the country, and in the cities they had good jobs. They became the largest class of people in the New World.
Who were the mestizos?
400
Moctezuma was the Aztec ruler over much of this country.
What is Mexico?
400
This ocean had to be crossed by the Europeans to get to the New World.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
This continent supplied the slaves when so many Indians died.
What is Africa?
500
This motto sometimes attributed to the Spaniards is a short way to explain the three main reasons the Spanish explored and colonized the Americas.
What is "Gold, God, and Glory"?
500
These indigenous people were kept in poverty by the Spanish for hundreds of years and treated like slaves.
Who were the Indians?
OR Who were Native Americans?
500
These three types of settlements in New Spain were allowed by the Spanish king.
What are pueblos, presidios and missions?
500
These are the four oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic?
500
1. Spanish had superior military equipment. 2. Mexican Indians thought the Spanish were gods. 3. Many Mexicans died from smallpox, measles and other European diseases.
What are reasons the Spanish won?
OR
What are reasons the Spanish beat the Aztecs?