In ancient times the city was called Tenochtitlan.
What is Mexico City?
100
The names of Columbus's 3 ships.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
100
He was an African slave who escaped froom captivity and established a town.
Who was Yanga?
100
The European city that people compared Mexico City to.
What was Venice, Italy.
100
The Aztec serpant with feathers.
Who was the God Quetzalcoatl?
200
The name Cortes gave the Aztec area they conquered.
What was called New Spain?
200
An instrument that Columbus used to guide him accross the Atlantic Ocean.
What is an astrolabe?
200
The place Spain got their workers for surgar plantations.
What is Africa.
200
The historic center of this city surrounds it.
Where is the largest plaza in the Western Hemisphere today?
200
An important Mexican symbol on their flag. It is linked to a legend about where Tenochtitlan was founded because this bird was perched on a cactus in the desert.
What is an eagle?
300
Small bells that were attached to the legs of captive hawks. Columbus traded these with the Taino.
What were hawks' bells?
300
It maps an event of the past.
What is an historical map?
300
Why Spaniards went to Africa to get slaves to work in the sugar fields, work in the mines, and load ships.
What were to replace the Indians who had died.
300
The year Columbus reached the American and met the Taino.
What is 1492?
400
To obtain wealth/gold/silver
What is the reason why Spanish explorers sailed to The New World?
400
The name of a ship captain's diary.
What is a log?
400
The Incan Empire was located on this continent.
What is South America?
400
The 3 areas known as New Spain.
What were the Caribbean Islands, Central American and now present day Mexico?
400
Maize is another name for this.
What is corn?
500
A very large piece of land that often included several Indian villages. The government of Spain granted Spanish colonists this land if they would colonize the New World.
What was an encomiendas?
500
A person who teaches his or her religion to others who have different beliefs.
What is a missionary?
500
Items brought by Columbus to the New World.
What were plants, animals and diseases.
500
The Spainards brought this mammal which changed the way the Native American hunted.