Unit 2: Final Stages of Muslim Rule
A nearly 800-year period of wars and shifting borders where Christian kingdoms fought to reclaim the Iberian Peninsula.
What is the Reconquista?
This Spanish conquistador overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Rather than through battles, this European dynastic family gained power through strategic marriages.
Who are the Habsburgs?
This type of charter granted land to individuals rather than companies.
What is a proprietary charter?
In 1969, this American became the first person to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This medieval Muslim-governed territory on the Iberian Peninsula existed from 711 to 1492.
What is Al-Andalus?
The fall of this city in 1453 forced European nations to seek new maritime trade routes to Asia which consequently led to the colonization of America.
What is Constantinople?
Taking the throne in 1516, he was the first member of the House of Habsburg to rule as king of Spain.
Who was Charles I?
This cash crop saved the English colony of Jamestown from financial ruin.
What is tobacco?
This mid-19th-century conflict between Britain and Qing China, triggered by the trade of an addictive drug, forced China to cede Hong Kong and open several ports to foreign trade.
What is the (First) Opium War?
Spanish for "little Moor", this term described Muslims who had converted to Christianity.
What is a Morisco?
He was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture and execution in July of the following year.
Who was Atahualpa?
The 1494 treaty which divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal was signed in this European city.
What is Tordesillas?
Today home to the Dominican Republic and Haiti, this island is where Columbus first landed on his famous 1492 voyage.
What is Hispaniola?
In 1789, angry Parisians stormed this medieval fortress-prison, an event traditionally seen as the start of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
Also known as the Edict of Expulsion, this edict ordered the expulsion of unconverted Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon.
The Lady of Guadalupe is an example of this term which means the blending of different religions, cultures, or ideas into a new, unified system.
What is syncretism?
This term was used to describe Spanish-born elites who became "rooted" in colonial society by living there for an extended period of time.
What is a Radicado?
This Governor of the Indies was arrested in 1500 due to allegations of mismanagement, cruelty, and incompetence in governing his colony.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This 1215 English charter, forced on King John by his barons, limited royal power and is often cited as an early influence on constitutional government and individual rights.
What is the Magna Carter?
Known as "Boabdil" to the Christians, he was the last Nasrid Emir of Granada.
Who was Muhammad XII?
This is the term used to describe the assumption that Native Americans lived in a changeless, primitive state before European contact.
What is Holmberg's Mistake?
This was a historical system where the Pope gave Catholic monarchs in Spain and Portugal official control over church administration in their colonies.
What is the Patronato Real?
Known as "filles du roi" in French, this group was sent to New France by the crown in a bid to encourage European settlement in the colony.
Who were the Daughters of the King?
This 1648 series of treaties ended the Thirty Years’ War in the Holy Roman Empire and the Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Dutch Republic; it is often credited with establishing the modern system of sovereign states.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?