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1. What is the Spanish word for "conquerors"?
conquistadors
2. A gift or payment given to show respect.
tribute
3. The ______________ was a Spanish policy that granted land and the Indians that lived on it to Spanish soldiers and colonists as a reward for their service to Spain.
encomienda
4. The study of the universe is called:
astronomy
5. What year did Hernan Cortes set sail with 600 men and 16 horses?
1519
6. Who was the leader of the Aztec Empire?
Montezuma II
7. What is a widespread outbreak of a disease?
Epidemic
8. A contagious and often deadly disease that spread because of Spanish exploration.
Smallpox
9. Who arrived in Peru in 1531?
Francisco Pizzaro
10. To force someone to leave.
Banish
11. A steep cliff is also called a:
Bluff
12. A _____________ is a colonial ruler appointed by the king.
Viceroy
13. Who led the first Spanish colonists to New Mexico in 1598?
Don Juan de Onate
14. Who was Cabeza de Baca's guide?
Esteban
15. What was Francisco Vasquez de Coronado searching for?
Cities of Gold
16. What year was the Acoma Revolt?
1598
17. Another name for a military fort is called:
Presidio
18. ____________ are logs used as ceiling beams cut from tall trees in the mountains.
Vigas
19. What is a town council during Spanish colonial times?
Cabildo
20. A active member of a cabildo was called a:
Regidor
21. Irrigation canals are also called:
Acequias
22. Spanish colonists attempted to convert Native Americans to:
Catholicism
23. Another name for vaquero is:
Cowboy
24. A person who flees from a place of war is called a:
Refugee
25. Two fierce and hostile Native American tribes at war with one another were the:
Apache & Comanche
26. What trade route did traders take to get to the items they wanted from Asia?
Silk Road
27. Christopher Columbus asked King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to finance (pay for) a voyage to find a new water route to ________.
Asia
28. Columbus claimed all the land, people, and wealth he discovered for ________
Spain
29. What three things were conquistadors in search of when they sailed to America?
Gold, God, and Glory
30. Indians had to pay tribute to the Spanish in the form of _________.
gold
31. What did the Indians in present-day Florida do to the new Spanish strangers and explorers when the Indians saw them?
They chased them back to the coast
32. Indians told Cabeza de Vaca stories of great wealth in the far ____________.
North
33. Who did Esteban travel with before he traveled with Fray Marcos de Niza and his expedition?
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
34. When the Indians met Esteban they thought he might be one of two things. What were the two things? (choose two)
evil spirit, spy sent by other Indian enemies
35. When Fray Marcos de Niza viewed the village of Hawikah he thought he saw many houses made of __________
gold
36. Fray Marcos reported that there were ______ cities as opposed to just 1 city
7
37. Coronado followed ______________ in search of the mythical cities
Indian trade routes
38. Instead of seven great cities, there were only ______ small villages
6
39. Some of Coronado's men went as far west as the ________________. They were the first Europeans to see it, but they called it a useless piece of property
Grand Canyon
40. Where was the Plaza located at in a Spanish Town?
in the center of the town
41. How many plots of land did each colonist receive?
2
42. What was the expectation of each colonist that received plots of land from the government?
farm the land to help feed the community
43. Catholic priests wanted the natives to be more ___________ than _____________
More Spanish than native
44. The colonists used Indian labor for many things. What were three of the main ways for which they used the Indian labor?
Mining, Farming, and Ranching
45. ______________ was the leader of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. He was a member of the ________________
Pope' and a member of the San Juan Pueblo
46. After the Spanish were driven out of Santa Fe during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, what did the Pueblo Indians do to many of the buildings, churches, and homes
They destroyed them
47. What government official was in charge of the land grants?
Royal Governor
48. True or False: Nearly every skill and piece of ranching equipment used by later cowboys came from vaqueros
True
49. What was the threat that the Spanish still faced even though relations between them and the Pueblo Indians had improved?
hostile nomadic Indian tribes
50. Which group's population began to decrease while the Spanish population was increasing in New Mexico during the 1700s
Pueblo Indians