Vocabulary
What is the Spanish word for 'conqueror'?
Conquistador
Bean used to make chocolate (was also used as currency)
cacao
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
Disease brought by the Spanish that killed many Aztecs
smallpox
A source created after the time being studied
secondary source
The name of the system that allowed the Spanish to "own" Indigenous people and use them as a slave labour force
Encomienda system
Who was the king of the Aztec Empire?
Montezuma II
Which explorer left Spain, intending to find a new route to India, instead landed in a 'new' land calling it San Salvado which is now called the Bahamas?
Christopher Columbus
What are the three G's that inspired many Europeans to travel to the Americas?
God, Gold & Glory
What CE stands for
e.g. in 1521 CE…
Common Era
Moving foods, people, diseases between the New World and Old World
Columbian Exchange
Capital city of the Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlan
Which conquistador conquered the Incas?
Francisco Pizarro
During and after the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the Spanish used which groups of people as slaves?
Indigenous people of the Americas and Africans
The physical and organisational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, temples) of a place
Infrastructure
One country taking over land of another people and establishing settlements there
Colonisation
Civilisation in the Andes Mountains that built Machu Picchu
Inca
How did Montezuma II, the Aztec King, die?
He was captured and killed by Cortes's men
The year that Columbus 'discovered' the Americas
1492
Some native Americans mistook these animals for large deer
Horses
Organising (people) with the powerful on top and the powerless at the bottom
hierarchy
Most important crop in Mesoamerica, also called maize
corn
Who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey west?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Due to the Columbian Exchange, what are three products which were brought from the New World to the Old World?
Corn (maize), cacao, tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, peppers, tobacco, pineapples, beans, vanilla
Believing in many gods
polytheistic