New World Empires

Question 1

Peninsulares

Answer 1

People born in Spain

Question 2

Creoles

Answer 2

People of European decent, but not born in Spain.

Question 3

Viceroyalties

Answer 3

• administrative divisions

- Spain’s new world territories were divided into four viceroyalties

Question 4

Columbia’s exchange

Answer 4

A complex exchange of animals, plants, and diseases

Question 5

Encomienda

Answer 5

A system where the conquerors were granted the right to employ groups of amerindians as agriculture or mining laborers, or as tribute prayers.

Question 6

Vasgo de Gama

Answer 6

First to reach India by sea

Question 7

Herman Cortez

Answer 7

Led an expedition that cause the fall of the Aztec empire.

Question 8

Coronado

Answer 8

A Spanish explorer who discovered the Grand Canyon and several other landmarks.

Question 9

Treaty of tordesillas

Answer 9

Gave the Portugal the east, and the Spanish Brazil

Question 10

Balboa

Answer 10

Know for crossing panama isthmus and being the first to lead an expedition that reached the pacific from the new world

Question 11

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 11

He decided that the America’s were separated from Brazil

Question 12

Pedro Cabral

Answer 12

Know as the discoverer of Brazil

Question 13

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 13

Conquered the Incan empire by killing atahualpa

Question 14

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 14

Portuguese explorer who organized the expedition to the West Indies

Question 15

Line of demarcation

Answer 15

The line in the treat of tordesillas that separated what Portugal and Spain got