Social 9-11 test

Question 1

What year did Christopher Columbus sail across the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer 1

1492

Question 2

What does the Spanish phrase “La Geographia Manda” mean?

Answer 2

Geography controls everything

Question 3

What was the Spanish Reconquista?

Answer 3

the Christian reconquest of Spain

Question 4

How did the Spanish change their fighting style during the Reconquista?

Question 5

What title(s) did the Pope bestow on Ferdinand and Isabella?

Answer 5

Catholic Monarchs

Question 6

What was the Spanish Inquisition?

Answer 6

When non-Christians were tortured for their beliefs

Question 7

Why did Ferdinand and Isabella change their minds about sending Columbus across the Atlantic?

Answer 7

Spain was broke, and they needed gold.

Question 8

How did the marriage between King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella unify Spain?

Answer 8

It joined two of the largest regions under one government.

Question 9

Why was the Spanish Inquisition was primarily established

Answer 9

To judge those who were found committing heresy against God

Question 10

What was the actual name of Muslim Spain?

Answer 10

Al-Andalus

Question 11

What was Spain and Portugal refered to as ?

Answer 11

The Iberian peninsula

Question 12

What did the governor of Hispaniola give to Cortés when he arrived in 1504?

Answer 12

a farm

Question 13

What did Cortés do when he landed in La Villa Rica de la Veracruz

Answer 13

He sunk all but one ship in his fleet and send that one back to Spain

Question 14

What was the man who was leading Spanish troops towards Moctezuma and the Aztecs was man named?

Answer 14

Hernan Cortez

Question 15

What disease wiped out most of the aztec? What wiped out the rest of them?

Answer 15

Smallpox, the rest starved to death.

Question 16

What is a conquestador?

Answer 16

Spanish word for the leader of colonizing expeditions

Question 17

What was a musket?

Answer 17

Long, rifle-like guns that were fired from the shoulder

Question 18

What was the main reason that the Encomienda system was created?

Answer 18

No gold was left to pay the soldiers after the King’s share was paid.

Question 19

What was a Mestizo?

Answer 19

Someone that had a spanish parent and an indigenous parent

Question 20

What was a viceroy?

Answer 20

A royal representative

Question 21

What was a peninsular?

Answer 21

A spainiard who was born in spain

Question 22

What was a creole?

Answer 22

Someone not born in spain but had 2 spanish parents

Question 23

Why did the spanish colony rebel?

Answer 23

They were upset at the fact that their taxes were oing to spain instead of being used o them.