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Question 1

herman cortes

Answer 1

Spanish soldier that conquered the aztecs

Question 2

junipero serra

Answer 2

Franciscan missionary who settled California

Question 3

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 3

Mapmaker and explorer who said america was a new continent, so america was named after him

Question 4

pizzaro

Answer 4

introduced the horse, military guns and cannons to ambush the inca

Question 5

Vasco de Balboa

Answer 5

his settlement lead to the conquest of the aztec and inca empires

Question 6

cabeza de vaca

Answer 6

he explored the texas interior on his way to mexico

Question 7

de la salle

Answer 7

First european to go down Mississippi river to the gulf of mexico, Father of louisiana territory

Question 8

Cahokia

Answer 8

Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis, home to as many as 25,000 Native Americans

Question 9

anasazi

Answer 9

An early Native American people who lived in the American Southwest, dwelled in caves and had irrigation

Question 10

three sisters

Answer 10

Crops that formed the basis of agriculture in the Western Hemisphere about 9000 years ago. These crops provided the Indians of the Western Hemisphere with food and began their agricultural knowledge.

Question 11

Caravel

Answer 11

A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.

Question 12

Plantation

Answer 12

large estate farmed by many workers

Question 13

Dark continent

Answer 13

Africa is called this because the Europeans knew so little about it

Question 14

Ferdinand and Isabella

Answer 14

The king and queen of Spain who gave Columbus the funds that he needed to find a route to Asia.

Question 15

Christopher Columbus

Answer 15

He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.

Question 16

Columbian Exchange

Answer 16

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus’s voyages.

Question 17

Sugar Revolts

Answer 17

By the end of the 17th century, the British had also established stakes in the Caribbean, and slavery became an integral part of their newly settled colonies almost from the start. Dutch traders, who had a foothold in Brazil, first introduced sugar making to English colonists on the island of Barbados in the 1630’s. From humble beginnings, the British sugar industry spread north to the Leeward Islands, where it soon wrought a social, economic and political transformations.

Question 18

treaty of tordesillas

Answer 18

A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

Question 19

Encomienda

Answer 19

A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it

Question 20

Conquistador

Answer 20

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

Question 21

Capitalism

Answer 21

An economic system based on private ownership of capital

Question 22

Mestizo

Answer 22

A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.

Question 23

pope’s rebellion

Answer 23

An Indian uprising in 1680 where pueblo rebels in an attempt to resist catholicism and Europeans all together destroyed every catholic church in the province and killed scores of priests and hundreds of spanish settlers.

Question 24

Black Legend

Answer 24

False notion that Spanish conquerors did little but butcher the Indians and steal their gold in the name of Christ.

Question 25

California Missions

Answer 25

21 religious outposts established between 1769 and 1833 in California. Most by the Franciscans, and most along with a military presidio nearby