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Vocabulary
Spaniards
The Land
Native Americans
100
A device used to measure latitude.
What is an astrolabe?
100
A religious settlement where missionaries live and work.
What is a mission?
100
The king and queen that were convinced to support Columbus' voyages.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
100
The name of the colony that Spain established in Mexico.
What is New Spain?
100
A disease that took the lives of many North Americans.
What is smallpox?
200
The movement of people, animals, plants, diseases,and ways of life between the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
A journey made for a special purpose.
What is an expedition?
200
A priest that spoke out against the mistreatment of native peoples.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
200
A large farm with many workers who lived on the land they worked.
What is a plantation?
200
This city was destroyed in order to make Mexico City?
What is Tenochtitlan?
300
The group of people that Columbus met on landing in the "New World".
Who are the Taino?
300
A capture or taking of something by force.
What is a conquest?
300
The first European to lead a sailing expedition around the world.
Who is Magellan?
300
A settlement far away from the country that rules it.
What is a colony?
300
Brought to the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola in 1512 to replace Natives who were dying from disease and overwork.
Who were enslaved Africans?
400
Columbus' three ships from his first voyage.
What are the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
400
A friend who will help in a fight.
What is an ally?
400
He explored the American Southwest in 1540, looking for Cibola.
Who is Coronado?
400
A grant which allowed a landowner control of all the Native Americans living on an area of land.
What is an encomienda?
400
The leader of the Aztecs who met Hernando Cortes.
Who is Moctezuma?
500
The number of ships which Columbus took on his second voyage.
What is 17?
500
A group of Spanish soldiers.
What are conquistadors?
500
In 1513, he crossed the Isthmus of Panama and reached the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Balboa?
500
The people at the top of colonial society in New Spain.
Who are the peninsulares?
500
The Incan capital city.
What is Cuzco?