Conquistadors
Vocabulary
Tricks and Troubles
Where are we?
100

This conquistador first traveled alongside Columbus.

Who was Ponce de Leon?

100

This is a piece of land that extends into the water.

What is a penninsula?

100

This was the cause of the greatest decline in Native American population.

What are diseases.

100

This European was the first to set foot in Florida.

Who was Ponce de Leon?

200

This conquistador took down the Aztec Empire.

Who is Hernando Cortez?

200

This is family member that lived long ago.

What is an ancestor?

200

Pizarro and his army hid to capture this Incan ruler.

Who was Atahualpa?

200

This is the capital of the Inca Empire.

What is Cuzco?

300

This conquistador didn't find gold, but he did claim much of the southeastern part of America for Spain.

Who was DeSoto?

300

This is place where people met to trade goods.

What is a trading post?

300

This conquistador used cannons and horses to scare the natives.

Who was Cortes?

300

De Soto searched this part of the Americas looking for gold.

What is the southeast? (Florida, Georgia, S.Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana)

400

Mocktezuma thought this conquistador was Quetzalcoatl.

Who is Cortes?

400

This is a place that is settled a long distance from its ruling country.

What is a colony?

400

The Turk told this conquistador of a country, Quivira, filled with gold and fish larger than horses.

Who was Coronado?

400

A statue of Pizarro stands in this city and country for defeating the Inca Empire.

Where is Lima, Peru?

500

This conquistador did not keep his promise of freedom for Atahualpa even though he was given a room filled with gold.

Who was Pizarro?
500

These teachers try to convert other people to their religion.

Who are missionaries?

500

Friar Marcos sent this conquistador on a wild goose chase, looking for the Seven Cities of Gold.

Who was Coronado?

500

This conquistador was shipwrecked on the coast of Texas.

Who is Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?