Age of Exploration
This name is given to the period when European explorers travelled to search for trade routes and new lands.
This vast city was located on Lake Texcoco and was the capital of the Aztec Empire.
What was Tenochtitlan?
The Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mesoamerica in this year.
When was 1519?
This Spanish conquistador led the expedition against the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
This was the name given to the colonial nation established by the Spanish after their conquest of the Aztecs.
What was New Spain?
European explorers wanted new trade routes to Asia to obtain valuable products, including these flavouring ingredients.
What are spices?
The Aztecs practised this bloody ritual to celebrate the gods and their religion almost every day.
What is human sacrifice?
Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs using steel swords and these gunpower weapons known as 'firespears' to the Aztecs.
What are muskets?
This Aztec emperor reigned during the Spanish Conquest.
Who was Moctezuma II?
This controversial word is used to describe what befell the Aztec people under the period of Spanish rule.
What is genocide?
These precious materials motivated the Spanish conquests of Mesoamerica.
Aztec farmers constructed these productive plots of land in the shallow water around their island city.
What were chinampas?
These strange animals were brought by the Spanish to the New World and gave them mobility and speed on the battlefield.
What are horses?
This famous Italian explorer crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 and claimed what he found in the name of the Spanish crown.
Who was Christopher Colombus?
This infectious disease came to the New World with the Spanish and killed millions of Aztecs.
What is smallpox?
Spain and this neighbouring European country became rivals in their exploration of the world's oceans during the Age of Exploration.
What is Portugal?
The Aztec people called themselves this name, which is also inspiration for the name of a famous Central American country.
What is Mexica?
These powerful Mesoamericans were enemies of the Aztecs and became important allies of Cortes.
Who were the Tlaxcalans?
This royal figure ruled Spain during the period of the Spanish conquest.
King Carlos I.
This famous Central American city was built upon the ruins of the Aztec capital in 1525.
What is Mexico City?
This international treaty was negotiated by the Pope to settle territorial disputes between Spain and Portugal in 1494.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This grand temple stood at the centre of the Aztec capital and was dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, the war god, and Tlaloc, the rain god.
What was the Templo Mayor?
This port city was established by Cortes in 1519 and is the oldest European city on the American mainland.
What is Veracruz?
This royal power couple united the kingdoms of Castille and Aragon into Spain in 1469.
Who were Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand?
The Spanish brought their language and this Christian Church to Central and South America?
What is the Catholic Church?