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Spain and its Monarchs
Vocabulary
The blending of cultures
Modern Mexico
Hodgepodge
100
The creation of a Catholic State in Spain: all Muslims and Jews were forced to convert, or face expulsion, torture and death.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
100
This is the belief in two or more gods.
What is polytheism?
100
The Spanish and the Aztecs clashed because of their differences in this.
What is worldview?
100
This is the site of modern day Mexico City.
What is Tenotichtlan?
100
This man was the military ruler in Japan.
Who was the Shogun?
200
The name for the soldiers that went to conquer the New World.
Who are the Conquistadors?
200
This Aztec school for commoners, which taught farming skills, music, history and religion through spoken instruction.
What is the telpochcalli?
200
The Spanish became aggressive and moved towards a take over from the Aztecs after they realized this asset could be found in abungance.
What is gold?
200
It is through this celebration that the people of Mexico remember both their Aztec heritage and their loved ones who have passed away.
What is the Day of the Dead?
200
This is a collection of beliefs about life held by an individual or a group; the overall perspective through which one sees the world.
What is worldview?
300
These two people were named the Catholic monarchs of Spain by the Pope.
Who were Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand?
300
This is the name for the new race of people that was created through the blending of Aztec and Spanish blood.
Who are mestizos?
300
He was the leader of the Conquistadors.
Who was Cortes?
300
These people have no indigenous Aztec blood, but were born in Mexico.
Who are the creoles?
300
These animals, due to their beautiful markings and colouring, were important to the Aztecs, and were a sign of wealth and importance in Aztec dress.
What are the ocelot and the quetzal?
400
Who were the leaders in technology and the arts in Spain before King Ferdinand and Queen isabella took power?
Who were the Arabs.
400
The movement of a country to gain land, money and power; to become an Empire, is called what?
What is expansion?
400
These are the four factors that helped the Spanish conquer over the Aztecs.
What is leadership, weapons, strategy and disease?
400
This is now the main religion in Mexico.
What is Catholicism?
400
These are groups who were the original inhabitants of a land, who have a distinct identity.
Who are indigenous peoples?
500
The Christian conquest of Spain over the Arabs was called what?
What is the reconquista?
500
The name of the Spanish system of commerce that gave Spanish settlers land and power when they took over in a society is what?
What is encomienda?
500
The Spanish began to change the religious system of the Aztecs from polytheism to this.
What is monotheism, or Catholicism.
500
This population number has officially placed Mexico City as the largest city in the world.
What is 22 million people?
500
This was a Christian military expedition to take the Holy Land.
What was the Crusades?