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Question 0

What did Cortes want to do when he arrived in Mexico in 1519?

Answer 0

He planned to take over the Aztec Empire to acquire their riches.

Question 1

What was in the Indies that the people in Europe wanted?

Answer 1

Gold, spices and other goods - riches

Question 2

What is Mexico City?

Answer 2

One of the oldest cities in the Western Hemisphere and the capital of New Spain.

Question 3

A large Caribbean Island where the first African slaves were brought by the Spanish.

Answer 3

Hispaniola

Question 4

Did Las Casas support African slavery?

Answer 4

At first he did but later changed his opinion.

Question 5

How did the peninsulares make a lot of money?

Answer 5

From slave labor

Question 6

What happen to Cortes and Moctezuma during the up rising in Tenochtitlan in 1520.

Answer 6

Moctezuma was killed, perhaps by his own people and Cortes escaped.

Question 7

Who paid for Columbus’ expedition west to find a cheaper and quicker route to the Indies?

Answer 7

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 8

Why did Spain want a colony?

Answer 8

To make money, or profit.

Question 9

Who was a priest that defended the right of native people who lived at missions in 1527?

Answer 9

Bartolommeo de Las Casas

Question 10

Who held the lowest position in this society, they had no Spanish ancestors?

Answer 10

Indians and Africans

Question 11

Who are the people of Spanish background but were born in the Americas called?

Answer 11

Creoles

Question 12

What happen to many of the native Americans due to the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 12

Many of them died due to the diseases brought to the Western Hemisphere.

Question 13

True or False. Some missionaries mistreat native people.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Who did Spanish replace native workers with?

Answer 14

Africans

Question 15

The story of the rich kingdom Cibola was told by an enslaved African sailor named?

Answer 15

Esteban, searched many years for the kingdom but died without finding it.

Question 16

Did Columbus find the Indies on his expedition in 1492?

Answer 16

No, he landed in a part of the America’s that became known as the West Indies.

Question 17

What did the Spanish found in 1535?

Answer 17

The Spanish founded the colony of New Spain.

Question 18

A person who lives in a colony?

Answer 18

Colonist

Question 19

In what year did Pizarro defeat the Incan Empire?

Answer 19

1533

Question 20

What were two things that changed the native people way of life?

Answer 20

1. They were forced to work on sugarcane farms.

2. They were forced to give up their beliefs for Christianity.

Question 21

Why did the Spanish send priest to New Spain?

Answer 21

The priests came to convert, or change, the native peoples to Christianity.

Question 22

What major challenge did Cortes face in defeating the Aztecs?

Answer 22

The Aztecs greatly outnumbered Cortes force of about 500 men.

Question 23

What did Columbus do when he found land on his expedition in 1492?

Answer 23

Columbus claimed the land, which he thought was part of the Indies for Spain.

Question 24

When Vasco Nunez de Balboa cross the Isthmus of Panama and see the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 24

In 1513

Question 25

A friend who will help in a fight?

Answer 25

Ally

Question 26

Who worked on encomiendas as farm workers, miners, and servants? And how were they treated?

Answer 26

Native people; many were treated badly.

Question 27

Who was Moctezuma?

Answer 27

He was the ruler of the Aztecs.

Question 28

In 1519, who agreed to let Cortez stay in Tenochtitlan?

Answer 28

Moctezuma

Question 29

What became an important part of the economy in New Spain?

Answer 29

African slave labor

Question 30

What was brought to the Eastern Hemisphere?

Answer 30

Turkey, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, cocoa, and beans.

Question 31

What did the colonists of New Spain hope to gain?

Answer 31

They hope to gain wealth from farms, businesses, and gold and silver mines.

Question 32

The capture or taking of something by force?

Answer 32

Conquest

Question 33

What advantages did Cortes and his Spanish forces have?

Answer 33

1. The Spanish had armor and guns - Aztecs used stone weapons. 2. The Spanish had horses - Aztecs were afraid of horses, had never seen them before. 3. The Spanish had allies - many native people didn't want to live under Aztec rule. 4. The Spanish brought the disease smallpox to Mexico which killed many Aztecs.

Question 34

Who did the Spanish sent to South America to conquer the Incan Empire?

Answer 34

Francisco Pizarro

Question 35

A person who teaches his or her religion to others who have different beliefs?

Answer 35

Missionary

Question 36

In what year did Cortes defeat the Aztec Empire?

Answer 36

1521

Question 37

Where did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Esteban explore in 1528?

Answer 37

The Southwest region of the United States, what is now Texas.

Question 38

Who was Dona Marina?

Answer 38

An Aztec woman who became an ally of Cortes. She helped Cortes by speaking to native people of Mexico for him.

Question 39

When was Ferdinand Magellan's expedition?

Answer 39

In 1519

Question 40

A religious settlement where missionaries live and work?

Answer 40

Mission

Question 41

When was Columbus' second voyage?

Answer 41

In 1493

Question 42

Who did the governor of New Spain decide to send to find Cibola in 1540?

Answer 42

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Question 43

In what year, were the first African slaves brought to Hispaniola?

Answer 43

In 1512

Question 44

Who were the largest group in New Spain, a person of Indian and Spanish background?

Answer 44

Mestizo

Question 45

What did country did Vespucci sail for and what did he do?

Answer 45

Vespucci sailed under the Portuguese flag and explored the eastern coast of South America.

Question 46

The Columbian Exchange brought __________ to both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

Answer 46

Change

Question 47

In 1532, Pizarro captured who?

Answer 47

Atahualpa, the Incan ruler.

Question 48

Columbus was looking for a cheaper and quicker water route from Europe to ______________.

Answer 48

Indies

Question 49

Why was Cibola never founded?

Answer 49

Because it did not exist.

Question 50

In 1520, the Aztecs did what?

Answer 50

The Aztecs rose up and threw the Spanish out of their city, Tenochtitlan.

Question 51

A journey made for a special purpose?

Answer 51

Expedition

Question 52

What did the Spanish travel north of Mexico in search of?

Answer 52

Treasure

Question 53

Who was the first European to reach the Missisippi River in 1540?

Answer 53

Hernando de Soto

Question 54

Who is America named after?

Answer 54

The Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

Question 55

Who was Hernando Cortes?

Answer 55

A Spanish conquistador.

Question 56

Where did Juan Ponce de Leon landed in 1513?

Answer 56

The Florida penninsula

Question 57

When did Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian, sail to the new world?

Answer 57

In 1501

Question 58

What did the Spanish do to Tenochtitlan?

Answer 58

They destroyed it and built Mexico City on its ruins.

Question 59

What was the sequence of Esteban's life?

Answer 59

1. He is shipwrecked 2. He travels in the Southwest 3. He is killed

Question 60

To change from one religion to another?

Answer 60

Convert

Question 61

Why do you think Moctezuma allowed Cortes to stay in Tenochtitlan?

Answer 61

Maybe he thought the Spanish .....

Question 62

What was the purpose of Columbus's second voyage?

Answer 62

Columbus returned to start colonies which lead to the Columbian Exchange.

Question 63

What are the four different group that made up society in late 1500's in New Spain?

Answer 63

1. Peninsulares 2. Creoles 3. Mestizo 4. Native people and Africans

Question 64

A settlement far from the country that rules it?

Answer 64

Colony

Question 65

A grant that gave a wealthy settler control of the native people who lived on an area of land?

Answer 65

Encomienda

Question 66

What was brought to the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 66

Horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, smallpox, and sugarcane.

Question 67

A movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life between the Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere?

Answer 67

Colombian Exchange

Question 68

When was Columbus' first voyage?

Answer 68

August 3, 1492

Question 69

What was one story of rich kingdoms to the north of Mexico?

Answer 69

Story of Cibola

Question 70

Why did the Spanish have to replace the native workers?

Answer 70

Because many native people were dying from disease and overwork.

Question 71

A group of people forming a community?

Answer 71

Society

Question 72

What did the missionaries teach?

Answer 72

Christianity to native people

Question 73

Who are the most powerful group of people, who were born in Spain called?

Answer 73

Peninsulares

Question 74

A large farm with many workers who live on the land they work?

Answer 74

Plantation

Question 75

What was Tenochtitlan?

Answer 75

The Aztec capital.

Question 76

A Spanish conqueror?

Answer 76

Conquistador

Question 77

What were the names of Columbus' three ships?

Answer 77

The Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

Question 78

What was the goal of Magellan's expedition?

Answer 78

Magellan led the first expedition around the world, which began in 1519 and ended in 1522 without him. Magellan was killed during the voyage.

Question 79

Was Columbus Spainish?

Answer 79

No, he was Italian.

Question 80

What did Columbus call native people, the Taino, he met?

Answer 80

Indians

Question 81

In 1535, Pizarro did what?

Answer 81

He captured Cuzco, the Incan capital city and founded a new capital of Lima in the colony of Peru.