Conquistadors

Question 1

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 1

• Panama in 1494
• Spain receives bulk of “New World”
• Portugal receives territory in Africa and Asia
• Conquistadors enter New World

Question 2

Vasco Nunez Balboa

Answer 2

discovers Pacific Ocean, which meant the New World had two oceans

Question 3

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 3

traveled around South America and into the Pacific and on to the Philippines. He would die there but his crew would complete a trip around the world

Question 4

Ponce de Leon

Answer 4

lands at Florida, believing it to be an island, and goes ardently in search of gold and eventually in search of the Fountain of Youth

Question 5

Francisco Coronado

Answer 5

explored the southwest portion of what would eventually be the U.S. (Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas)

Question 6

Hernando de Soto

Answer 6

explored Mississippi River

Question 7

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 7

made his way into South America and crush the Incas in present day Peru

Question 8

Encomienda

Answer 8

• Indians given to certain colonists in exchange for attempting to Christianize them
• First form of slavery in the New World

Question 9

Hernan Cortes

Answer 9

• discovered the Aztecs in Mexico. The Aztecs are a widely studied, complex civilization that possessed an abundance of gold. Cortes befriended the Aztecs and they gave him gold
• the Aztecs soon wanted the Europeans to leave as they realized that all they cared about was gold and not the cultures blending in peace

Question 10

Noche Triste

Answer 10

• “sad night”, occurred in 1520. The Aztecs attacked first in an attempt to push Cortes and his men out, but the Spanish were too strong. In defeat, the Aztec culture slowly disappears
• Where the Colombian Exchange was intended to benefit both the New World and Europe, the conquistadors had a different approach, one of conquering those standing in the way of accumulating wealth and glory for their home country

Question 11

remember this…

Answer 11

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Question 12

Which of the following conquistadors is responsible for the destruction of the Aztec Empire?

Answer 12

Cortes

Question 13

Encomienda was the giving of Natives for what purpose?

Answer 13

Slavery

Question 14

Arizona and New Mexico were discovered by the explorer ______

Answer 14

Coronado

Question 15

The number one item on the conquistadors’ minds was _________

Answer 15

gold

Question 16

Vasco Nunez Balboa discovered which of the following lands?

Answer 16

Panama