Spanish Explorers
This is the term for Spanish explorers.
What are conquistadors?
This conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This is the term for a Spanish fort
What is a presidio?
This was the main religion of Western Europe before the Reformation
What is Roman Catholicism?
This was the name of the sea passage Europeans sought to reach Asia
What is the Northwest Passage?
This explorer searched for the Fountain of Youth in Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de León?
This conquistador conquered the Inca Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This is the term for a Spanish religious community.
What is a mission?
This movement challenged the authority of the Catholic Church
What is the Reformation?
This explorer explored the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
These two men pretended to have healing powers to survive in the Southwest.
Who are Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Estevanico?
These were the main advantages the Spanish had over the native empires.
What are guns, cannons, and horses?
This is the term for a Spanish town
What is a pueblo?
This German priest started the Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This explorer explored the Hudson River.
Who is Henry Hudson?
This explorer led a search for the Seven Cities of Gold in the Southwest.
Who is Francisco Vásquez de Coronado?
This was the main reason many Native Americans died after European contact.
What are European diseases?
This is the term for a large farm that grew cash crops.
What is a plantation?
This was the exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These two explorers explored the Mississippi River.
Who are Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette?
This explorer was the first European to see California
Who is Juan Cabrillo?
This system granted Spanish settlers the right to demand labor from Native Americans
What is the encomienda system?
This person convinced Spain to pass laws protecting Native Americans
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
This country was defeated by England in 1588, ending their sea dominance.
What is Spain?
This person claimed Louisiana for France
Who is Robert Cavelier de La Salle?