Ch. 3 Conquering the New World

Question 1

Conquistador

Answer 1

Spanish conquerors

Question 2

Immunity

Answer 2

Resistance to disease

Ex: Natives had no immunity to small pox

Question 3

Alliancesa

Answer 3

Agreements between tribes to help one another fight rival tribes

Ex: Malinche helped Cortes arrange alliances with tribes to fight the Aztecs.

Question 4

Civil War

Answer 4

A war fought between groups of the same nation

Question 5

Viceroy

Answer 5

Representatives who rule in the name of the Spanish king.

Question 6

Plantation

Answer 6

Large estates run by an owner

Large numbers of workers were needed.

Question 7

Encomienda

Answer 7

The right for conquistadors to demand labor from Native Americans

Question 8

Peon

Answer 8

Workers forced to work in order to pay off a debt

Question 9

Peninsulars

Answer 9

People born in Spain

Question 10

Creole

Answer 10

People born in the New World rather than Spain

Question 11

Mestizo

Answer 11

People of Native American and European descent

Question 12

Mulattoe

Answer 12

People of African and European descent

Question 13

Privateer

Answer 13

Pirates operating with approval from European governments

Question 14

Cortes

Answer 14

Aztecs

Question 15

Pizarro

Answer 15

Conquistador who conquers the Incans

Question 16

Moctezuma

Answer 16

Aztec emperor who welcomes Cortes, but is later killed

Question 17

Tenochtitlan

Answer 17

Capital of the Aztec empire, destroyed by Cortes

Question 18

Atahualpa

Answer 18

Incan ruler who is killed by Pizarro

Question 19

Las Casas

Answer 19

Against slavery of Native Americans

Question 20

Brazil

Answer 20

Portuguese Colony

Made profits from cattle raising and sugar plantations

Question 21

De Champlain

Answer 21

Built the first permanent French settlement in Quebec

Question 22

Plymouth

Answer 22

English settlers land here in 1620

Question 23

Jamestown

Answer 23

First permanent English colony

Learned to grow and export tobacco

Question 24

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 24

Puritan Colony

Established Harvard University

Question 25

Mercantilism

Answer 25

Economic policy where a country exports more than it imports.