Spanish in America

Question 1

Americas

Answer 1

• brought into trade network under Columbus

Question 2

note

Answer 2

• all of Andulus is Dar Al Islam
• military and religious agenda to spread Christianity
• maritime empire

Question 3

Hernán Cortés

Answer 3

• 600 men expedition, maybe 300-400 hundred
• Aztec empire
• first to bring horse to Americas
• 1519-1521
• conquers Aztecs
• Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City)
• fought outer areas and used these allies to fight the Aztecs and won
• disease also a weapon
• Aztec interpreter (Donna Marina, had Cortes’s first son)
• ruler of Aztecs killed
• Cortes kept records of what he did

Question 4

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 4

• Incas weakened by civil war, superior Spanish weapons, small pox
• invaded the Incan Empire in 1532
• set a trap and killed the ruler, Atahualpa (chocked to death)
• Cuzco

Question 5

social hierarchy

Answer 5

• Peninsulares (Spaniards born in Spain)
• creoles (born in New Spain of Spanish parents)
• Mestizos (born of Spanish and Native American Indian parents)
• Mulattos
• enslaves persons (brought from Africa and the Caribbean)

Question 6

How did Muslims integrate into Spain?

Answer 6

• Spain drove them out

Question 7

which agendas did Ferdinand and Isabella unite in their exploration endeavors to the Americas?

Answer 7

• religious

- political

Question 8

what was Dona Marina’s role in the Spanish invasion of America?

Answer 8

• this was Cortez’s translator

Question 9

which definition best describes Creoles as Spaniards moved to America

Answer 9

• first generation in Americas

Question 10

which definition best describes Milatos as Spaniards moved to America

Answer 10

• African and European

Question 11

how did smallpox complement the Spanish conquistadors?

Answer 11

• it killed the natives

- they had to fight the locals AND this deadly isease