Spanish Dominance
What was the name of the Spanish warriors who conquered the Aztec and Incan empires?
Who were the Spanish conquistadors?
What was the name of the Aztec emperor when the conquistadors arrived?
Who was Moctezuma?
What were the causes and effects of the Spanish conquest of the Americas?
The conquistadors caused a war of the Aztecs and Incans empire. The effect was the loss of 90% of the Native Americans that lived there before he arrived.
Although he died in the Philippines, he was the captain of the first voyage that sailed around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
What were the conquistadors seeking when they sailed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas? (name three)
What is gold, glory and God?
Whose fleet was overtaken by a storm and ended their exploration?
Who was Panfilo Narvdez?
What was the causes and effects of the war between the Aztecs Native Americans and conquistadors. (Name three)
The conquistadors had more military fighting power (gunpowder) than the Aztecs; the Aztecs believed the conquistadors were Gods; and the Aztecs were afraid of their horses?
North and South America are named after this explorer, who traveled along the coast of South America and told Europe that this was NOT Asia but an entirely new continent.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Why did the Spanish conquistadors decide not to explore the northern coastal borders of the Americas.
Why didn't they find gold on the northern coastal border?
This Spanish conquistador set his sights on the Incan empire.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
The Aztecs demanded this from many of their neighboring nations - in exchange for protection (this is why so many natives chose to help the Spanish)
What is tribute?
Name two reasons the Spanish explorers did not focus on the northern borderlands of the Americas?
First, there was no gold found there. Secondly, the Native Americans organized a resistance to their invasion.
What was the name of the capital city of the Aztec empire?
What is Tenochtitlan?
What Spanish explorer explored the southern Americas and Florida?
Who is Herman de Soto?
The Spanish were masters of making this material (iron infused with carbon), which allowed them to have superior weapons and armor.
What is steel?
This was a priest that criticized the harsh treatment of the Native Americans and sought to have reform. He traveled through New Spain and witnessed many deaths. He asked Spain to protect the Native Americans by sending Africans to the Americas because they wouldn't be susceptible to the diseases.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
A land grant (which included the settlements and people) given to conquistadors and other colonial officials in America in which the officials were allowed to get tribute and labor from the people in exchange for protection and religious instruction.
What is an encomienda?
Who helped Herman Cortes defeat the Aztec Empire?
Who is Dona Marina (La Malinche)?
Who encouraged the King of Spain to get into the Atlantic slave trade?
Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?
When native nation that refused to pay tribute to the Aztecs and, consequently, were often at war with the Aztecs...and opted to ally with the Spanish.
What are the Tlaxcalas?
He was the Spanish conquistador that conquered the Inca of Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Name the three types of settlements and provide the definitions of each.
What are pueblos - small town centers for trade?
What are presidios - forts built for the soldiers.
What are missions - settlements run by Catholics whose goal was to convert Native Americans to Christianity.