Vocabulary Part 1
Explorers
Aztecs
Spanish Colony Facts
Vocabulary Part 2
100
Land ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
100

What were the three motivations for the Spanish to come to the Americas?

What are gold, glory, and God?

100
Their religious ritual to nourish their gods.
What is human sacrifice?
100

In what is today Mexico City, the Spaniards fought and conquered these people.

Who are the Aztecs?

100
Large farms.
What are plantations?
200
A ruler.
What is a monarch?
200
The conquistador who fought and conquered the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
The name the Aztecs called themselves.
Who are the Mexica?
200

The name of the colony formed by Spain in 1535, with most of its land in Mexico and its capital in Mexico City.

What is New Spain?

200
The practice of holding people against their will and making them work without pay.
What is slavery?
300

Forts.

What are presidios?

300
The Spanish Conquistador who participated in conquests of parts of Central America and Peru. He also discovered the Mississippi river.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
300
The main staple of the Aztec people. Hint: This food was introduced to the Spanish.
What is maize (similar to corn)?
300
Spaniards conquered and forced these people into slavery.
Who are the Native Americans?
300

Religious settlements with priests converting the Natives.

What are missions?

400
The lands on the edge of Spain's claims.
What are the borderlands?
400
The Spanish explorer responsible for the discovery of the Grand Canyon. He led several expeditions into the southwest region of what is now the United States. He also searched for the legendary Seven Golden Cities of Cibola.
Who is Francisco Vazquez de Coronado?
400

What was the big obstacle when the Spanish were conquering Tenochtitlan?

What is the lake around it?

400

The two modern dqy cities where the Spaniards built their first permanent, or long-lasting European settlements in what is now the United States.


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What is St. Augustine Florida and Santa Fe?

400
Large homes, or estates where settlers in the borderlands raised cattle and sheep.
What are haciendas?
500
Someone who travels to a new land to persuade others to believe in a particular religion.
What is a missionary?
500
The Conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire in South America.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
500
The capital of the Aztec empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
The name for the most powerful people in New Spain.
Who are the peninsulares?
500
A grant from the Spanish government that gave a Spanish settler the right to control local Native Americans.
What is an encomienda?
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