Europeans come to the Americas
The Columbian Exchange
Explorers and Conquerors
The Spanish Build an Empire
Early Spanish Exploration of the Americas
100
The first North Americans encountered by Columbus.
Who were the Taino?
100
Two items transported from Europe to the New World.
What are disease, sugar, horses (you must name two of these for points.)
100
She persuaded Aztec enemies to join Cortes in fighting the Aztec.
Who was Dona Marina?
100
The name for a large piece of land granted to Spanish colonists by the King of Spain.
What is an encomienda?
100
This Spanish priest was granted an encomienda, and defended the rights of Indians in New Spain.
Who was de las Casas?
200
The reason Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
What are Asian spices and silks?
200
Two items transported from the New World to Europe.
What are slaves, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, peppers (you must have two of these for points.)
200
Two physical advantages that Cortes' and his soldiers had over the Aztecs.
What are better weapons (made of metal) and armor.
200
The name for the Spanish conquerors who came to the Americas in the 1500s.
What is a conquistador?
200
The African slave who kept fellow slaves safe from Spanish trying to capture them.
Who was Yanga?
300
The island Columbus named, often considered to be the first place he landed in the New World.
What is San Salvador?
300
Two changes in the New World because of the Columbian Exchange.
What are death from smallpox or other disease, European colonists, transportation by horse, sheep, sugar (at least two of these required for points.)
300
The ruler of the Aztec allowed the Spanish to enter Tenochtitlan.
Who was Moctezuma?
300
The center of a Spanish city. People gathered here to buy food and other things in an open air market.
What is a plaza?
300
The Incan emperor conquered by the Spanish, led by Pizarro.
Who was Atahualpa?
400
Words that we use that were from the Taino language. (Two examples)
What are "canoe" and "hammock?"
400
Two changes in Europe, Africa and Asia because of the Columbian Exchange.
What are better diet, increased population and increased slave trade. (You must have two of these for points.)
400
The leader of the Aztecs when Cortes' army conquered the city of Tenochtitlan the second, and final, time.
Who was Cuauhtemoc?
400
This was built on the site of the Aztec's temple, after Cortes and his army conquered Tenochtitlan.
What is a cathedral?
400
The African scout who traveled with Coronado to find the Seven Cities of Gold in what is now the U.S. Southwest.
Who was Estevanico?
500
Columbus thought he had reached the East Indies.
Why did Columbus call the natives on San Salvador "Indians?"
500
The definition of the "Columbian Exchange."
What is the movement of people, plants, animals and germs across the Atlantic Ocean.
500
This was what happened to the city of Tenochtitlan after conquered by the Spanish.
What is destroyed and rebuilt as a Spanish city?
500
This strategy, by Cortes' and his soldiers, led to the ruin of the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan.
What is a 75-day siege...no food or water was permitted to enter Tenochtitlan through the causeways, or by boat.
500
The Portuguese sea captain whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
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