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Columbus
Vocabulary
Aztec Facts
Cortes
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100
What year did Columbus set sail from Spain
What is 1492
100
To travel to unfamiliar places in order to learn about them.
What is Explore.
100
The name of the Aztec capital.
What is Tenochtitlan
100
A conquistador from the early 1500s.
What is Hernando Cortes.
100
What does the name Texas mean?
What is friend or ally.
200
Where was Columbus trying to sail to?
The Indies in Asia
200
A place ruled by another country.
What is a colony
200
Who was the ruler of the Aztecs?
What is Moctezuma II.
200
Cortes' translator
Who is Dona Maria.
200
A large area containing different groups of people who are ruled by a country or single ruler
What is Empire
300
Where did Columbus actually land?
What is The Bahama Islands
300
Spainish for conqueror
What is a conquistador?
300
The name of the Aztec Sun god.
What is Huitzilopochtli.
300
Cortes was determined to do what 3 things when he landed in Mexico.
What is conqueror land, find gold, and spread the catholic religion.
300
What was the "Sign" that the Aztecs saw that made them decide that the island is where they should make their city?
What is an eagle standing on a cactus holding a snake in its mouth?
400
The disease the Europeans unknowingly brought over to the New World.
What is Measles
400
The movement of gold, parrots, and plants from the New World to Spain and corn, potatoes, and peanuts to Europe, Africa, and Asia.
What is The Columbian Exchange
400
Moctezuma sent __________ and ___________ to cortes when he heard that he had landed on the coast of Mexico.
What is gold and silver.
400
Cortes arrived on the shore of _______________ with the goal of conquering Tenochtitlan.
What is Mexico
400
What was the language of the Aztecs?
What is Nahuatl.
500
What were the Names of Columbus' ships?
What is the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
500
What were the "Seeds of Change"?
What is potato, corn, sugar, horses, and diseases.
500
What was the actual name of the people that Columbus called "Indians"
What is the Taino.
500
True or False: Cortes was able to conquer Tenochtitlan on the first try.
What is False
500
Where did the Aztecs land after wandering for 200 years?
What is Lake Texcoco