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Question 1

Indigenous

Answer 1

native

Question 2

Maya

Answer 2

an indigenous people of Mexico and Central America who developed the science of astronomy, calendar systems, and hieroglyphic writing

Question 3

Aztec

Answer 3

central Mexico produced highly skilled and sensitive built one of the first planned cities floating gardening and sacrificing people to their god

Question 4

Inca

Answer 4

South American Indians contributions to religion, architecture, and their famous network of roads throughout the region

Question 5

The Columbian Exchange

Answer 5

The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic

Question 6

Encomienda

Answer 6

a system of forced labor imposed on indigenous workers by Spanish colonists

Question 7

Missions System

Answer 7

missions made by Franciscan monks in the Spanish Southwest and California that forced Indians to convert to Catholicism and work as agricultural laborers

Question 8

Conquistador

Answer 8

a person who is out to conquer new territory

Question 9

Hernan Cortez

Answer 9

A Spanish conquistador conquering the Aztec Empire in 1521 and claiming Mexico for Spain

Question 10

Francisco Pizzaro

Answer 10

Spanish explorer who conquered Peru and, after assassinating Emperor Atahualpa, conquered the Inca Empire and claimed its territories on behalf of the Spanish crown

Question 11

Bartolome de la Casa

Answer 11

Spanish historian and Dominican missionary who was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there