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He founded Mexico City
Who is Cortez?
100
First people Columbus ran into in the New World
Who are the Taino?
100
Capitol city of the Aztecs
What is Tenochtitlan?
100
Papal bull meant to forestall hostilities between Spain and Portugal over exploration and colonization of the New World
What is Inter Caetera?
100
The only present country of South America where Portuguese is the national language.
What is Brazil?
200
He conquered the Inca
Who is Pizarro?
200
The Taino natives feared this warlike, cannibalistic tribe.
Who are the Caribs?
200
The sacrificial victims in the Aztec religious rituals.
What is human slaves.
200
Treaty in 1494 by which the Line of Demarcation was shifted westward 370 leagues
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
The name Christopher Columbus gave to the island he first landed on in the New World.
What is San Salvador?
300
He tried to find the Indies and found the Bahamas instead
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
It killed more natives than the conquistadors who brought it with them unwittingly.
What is small pox?
300
The name of the Aztec temple used for human sacrifice
What is teocalli?
300
The main reason Columbus got nowhere in Spain with his Enterprise of the Indies until 1492.
What is the war with the Moors in Granada?
300
Pizarro killed the king of the Inca and thereby took control of the area of what is now mainly (two countries)
What are Peru and Chile?
400
He found Florida
Who is Ponce de Leon?
400
When Columbus went back to Spain, Queen Isabel was furious at him because of this.
What is his treatment of the natives (who were now her subjects)?
400
This Aztec god was the god of war to whom the Aztecs offered human sacrifice.
Who is Huitzilpochtli?
400
These factors influenced the Spanish to look for a westward path to the Indies.
What is the result of the Muslims having the Middle East in their control and the Portuguese having the sea route southeastward around Africa?
400
The area in present day USA explored by Coronado.
What is the Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, etc.)?
500
He was the captain of the surviving ship in Magellan's expedition who made it around the world
Who is Juan Sebastian Elcano?
500
These people helped the Spanish conquistadors build brigantines to recapture the Aztec capitol, Tenochtitlan.
Who were the Tlaxcalans?
500
His name means "feathered serpent"
Who is the Aztec god, Quetzalcoatl?
500
The discovery of large deposits of this substance made Spain a superpower.
What is gold?
500
Cortez named this sea after himself, but now it is also known as...
What is the Gulf of California?