3rd Mid-term

Question 1

Spanish military explorer seeking wealth and territory

Answer 1

Conquistador

Question 2

Indigenous interpreter and advisor to Hernán Cortés

Answer 2

Malinche

Question 3

Indigenous allies who helped Hernán Cortés defeat the Aztecs

Answer 3

Tlaxcaltecas

Question 4

Spanish colonial labor system that granted colonists control over native populations

Answer 4

Encomienda

Question 5

Political-military alliance between Tenochtitlán, Texcoco and tlacopan

Answer 5

Triple alliance

Question 6

Cultural and biological mixing of Spanish and indigenous peoples

Answer 6

Mestizaje

Question 7

Smallpox

Answer 7

Deadly disease that devastated native populations

Question 8

Native name for epidemic disease

Answer 8

Cocoliztli

Question 9

Mandatory payment to rulers in goods or services

Answer 9

tribute

Question 10

Capital city of the Aztec empire

Answer 10

Tenochtitlán

Question 11

Night when Spanish forces retreated from Tenochtitlán

Answer 11

Noche triste

Question 12

Feathered serpent deity in Mesoamerican culture

Answer 12

Quetzalcoatl

Question 13

Spanish colonial governing body

Answer 13

Audiencia

Question 14

Local Spanish colonial government council

Answer 14

cabildo

Question 15

Aztec ruler during the Spanish conquest

Answer 15

Moctezuma II

Question 16

Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico in the year of

Answer 16

1519

Question 17

The Aztec capital of _________ was built on a lake

Answer 17

Tenochtitlán

Question 18

Served as both translator and cultural interpreter for Cortés

Answer 18

La Malinche

Question 19

Was a devastating epidemic that killed millions of indigenous people

Answer 19

Smallpox

Question 20

The Spanish were initially welcomed because they were thought to be representatives of

Answer 20

gods

Question 21

was the Aztec emperor who first encountered the Spanish

Answer 21

Moctezuma II

Question 22

The Spanish established their first mainland colony at

Answer 22

Veracruz

Question 23

System that distributed indigenous labor among Spanish colonists

Answer 23

Encomienda

Question 24

La noche triste occurred on

Answer 24

1520

Question 25

The siege of Tenochtitlán lasted _____ days

Answer 25

93