Social 9-11 test Flashcards
What year did Christopher Columbus sail across the Atlantic Ocean?
1492
What does the Spanish phrase “La Geographia Manda” mean?
Geography controls everything
What was the Spanish Reconquista?
the Christian reconquest of Spain
How did the Spanish change their fighting style during the Reconquista?
What title(s) did the Pope bestow on Ferdinand and Isabella?
Catholic Monarchs
What was the Spanish Inquisition?
When non-Christians were tortured for their beliefs
Why did Ferdinand and Isabella change their minds about sending Columbus across the Atlantic?
Spain was broke, and they needed gold.
How did the marriage between King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella unify Spain?
It joined two of the largest regions under one government.
Why was the Spanish Inquisition was primarily established
To judge those who were found committing heresy against God
What was the actual name of Muslim Spain?
Al-Andalus
What was Spain and Portugal refered to as ?
The Iberian peninsula
What did the governor of Hispaniola give to Cortés when he arrived in 1504?
a farm
What did Cortés do when he landed in La Villa Rica de la Veracruz
He sunk all but one ship in his fleet and send that one back to Spain
What was the man who was leading Spanish troops towards Moctezuma and the Aztecs was man named?
Hernan Cortez
What disease wiped out most of the aztec? What wiped out the rest of them?
Smallpox, the rest starved to death.
What is a conquestador?
Spanish word for the leader of colonizing expeditions
What was a musket?
Long, rifle-like guns that were fired from the shoulder
What was the main reason that the Encomienda system was created?
No gold was left to pay the soldiers after the King’s share was paid.
What was a Mestizo?
Someone that had a spanish parent and an indigenous parent
What was a viceroy?
A royal representative
What was a peninsular?
A spainiard who was born in spain
What was a creole?
Someone not born in spain but had 2 spanish parents
Why did the spanish colony rebel?
They were upset at the fact that their taxes were oing to spain instead of being used o them.
