Vocabulary
The Voyages of Columbus
Different Worlds Collide
Life in New Spain
Miscellaneous
100
A religious settlement where missionaries live and work.
What is a mission
100
An italian explorer who sailed to the Americas in 1492.
What is Christopher Columbus
100
Spanish of the Aztec Empire
What is Hernando Cortes
100
After many native people died the spanish replaced them with these people.
What is enslaved Africans.
100
America was named after this explorer.
What is Amerigo Vespucci.
200
Spanish conqueror
What is a conquistador
200
The way columbus's voyage impacted the Americas.
What is Columbus showed Europeans the way to the Americas.
200
After Cortes conquered the Aztecs, this person conquered the Incan empire.
What is Francisco Pizarro
200
Reason why the Spanish landowners wanted to keep slaves.
What is the slaves made them rich.
200
journey made for a special purpose.
What is expedition.
300
This is the taking of something by force.
What is a conquest
300
The people who sent Christopher Columbus on his expedition.
What is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
300
This colony was founded after the defeat of the Incan Empire.
What is Peru
300
This first happened in Spain's search for gold.
What is Cabeza de Vaca traveled the American Southwest.
300
settlement far from the country that rules it
What is colony
400
Granted someone control of Indians on an area of land
What is an encomienda
400
The reason why Columbus sailed west on his first expedition.
What is to find a shorter route to the Indies.
400
Roman Catholic priests traveled to New Spain to convert the __________ to Christianity.
What is Indians
400
Describe the life of Indians on an encomienda.
What is they often worked without pay and were expected to become Christians.
400
a large farm with many workers who live on the land they work.
What is plantation
500
This is the moving of people and their ways of life between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange
500
The result of Columbus's second expedition.
What is To bring ships with settlers, plants, and animals. (Set up a colony to make money for Spain - the Columbian Exchange)
500
These four factors that enabled Cortes to defeat the Aztecs.
What is metal armor, muskets(guns), horses, allies
500
List all four groups in New Spain's colonial society from most to least powerful.
What is peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, Africans and Indians
500
definition of a missionary.
What is a person who teaches his or her religion to people of different beliefs.
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