Colonies and Geography
Life Under Spanish Rule
Church & Plantations
Columbian Exchange
Vocabulary
100

The name of one of Spain's provinces that is current day Mexico.

New Spain

100

The top layer of society

Spanish Born

100

Missions taught Native Americans how to do these two things.

Read and write.

100

The two crops that made the highest impact because they were nutritious. 

Potatoes and corn

100

A grant of Native American labor.

Encomienda

200

Province of Spain in South America

Peru

200

The people with the least power and fewest rights in Spanish Colonial America.

Native Americans and Enslaved Africans

200

Native Americans were upset when the Spanish tried to replace this.

Traditions and religion.

200

Raw materials and living things are moved from this hemisphere to that hemisphere.

Eastern & Western Hemispheres

200

Settlements that included a church, a town, and farmlands. 

Mission

300

Spain built these to allow faster movement of goods. 

New Roads

300

People of Spanish descent who were born in the colonies. 

Creoles

300

Some Natives rebelled against Spanish rule by burning churches. Others did this. 

Ran away

300

The European diet started to depend on this. 

American Crops.

300

Large farms that raised cash crops. 

Plantation

400

Name the two Capital cities of the major Provinces. 

Mexico City and Lima

400

People of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry. 

Mestizos

400

Plantations started because of the demand for this. 

Sugar

400

As people moved from one hemisphere to the other, this was blended in the process.

Culture

400

The Columbian Exchange was a movement of living things such as plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. 



Columbian Exchange

500

Materials that were transported efficiently to the coast and then to Spain.

Gold and silver

500

The Spaniards made sure that people with this background held power in the colonies.

Spanish

500

Another way to say that crops were sent somewhere out of the country.

Export(ed)

500

As Europeans came to America, they brought with them germs that caused diseases such as smallpox, measles, and this virus that has its own season each year. 

Influenza

500

Top official who ruled in the kings name. 

Viceroy