Let's Catch a Vocab 1
What is the name of a town in New Spain?
What is a pueblo?
Name of trading between Europe, the Americas, and Africa
What is the Colombian Exchange?
Name of the Explorer who defeated Aztec Empire
Who is Hernan Cortez?
Disease
Europe
Name of the sailor that is known for finding the Americas and has a holiday named after him
Christopher Columbus
What is the name of a person that was born in Spain in the New World (Not SPANIARD)
Peninsulares
What is the name of a large estate in the Spanish colonies in the New World?
What is a hacienda?
Name of priest who fought for Native American rights
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
Livestock (Horses, pigs, sheep)
Europe
What was the name of the Viking known for sailing to New Foundland?
Who is Leif Erickson? (Leif Erickson day is October 9th)
Name the social class of a person who has mixed Indian and Spanish blood?
What is Mestizo?
What is the name of a religious settlement in the Spanish colonies?
Conquerer of the Incan Empire
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Turkeys
Americas
Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama to find what ocean for the country of Spain?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Ferdinand Magellan's ships did this, or to travel completely around the world
What is circumnavigate?
What is the name of a grant that let Spanish settlers enslave Native Americans?
Encomiendas
Name of Aztec Capital
What is Tenochtitlan?
Pineapples
Americas
What were the names of the 3 ships that Columbus used to get to the Americas?
What are the Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria?
Name of a settlement where soldiers lived
What is a Presidio?
Name for a Spanish explorer
What is a conquistador?
What were the three reasons why Europeans had so much success in the Americas?
Disease, advanced weapons, and rival Native American tribes
Onions
Europe
What was the continent that most early explorers were looking for?
What is Asia?