Ch2section1-2 Vocab Quiz

Question 1

A sailor that found America and was Italian and sailed for Spain he landed on the Bahamas on October 12 1492

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus

Question 2

Good, noble; the first Native Americans Christopher Columbus encountered

Answer 2

Taino

Question 3

Protested harsh treatment; I have lived as an encomender in Cuba

Answer 3

Bartolome de la casa

Question 4

Chipset Columbus used to sail across the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 4

Nina Pinta and the Santa Maria

Question 5

To sail completely around the world

Answer 5

Circumnavigate

Question 6

Treaty signed by Spain and Portugal in which both countries agreed to move the line of Markeisha in newly discovered lands west of the line would go to Spain on those east of the line would go in Portugal

Answer 6

Treaty of tordesillas

Question 7

A professional soldiers settled in Cuba

Answer 7

HernanCortes

Question 8

Portuguese mariner who believes sailing west he could find a water passageway around the

Answer 8

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 9

Spanish conquerors of the Americas

Answer 9

Conquistadors

Question 10

System in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to control the labor of local American Indian

Answer 10

Encomienda

Question 11

Aztec ruler who sent golden guess to Cortez to persuade him not to come to tenchtitlan

Answer 11

Moctesuma

Question 12

Aztec princess. Interpreter and advisor of Cortes

Answer 12

Malintzin