Unit 2 - Lesson 3

Question 1

Conquistador

Answer 1

A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain

Question 2

Hernan Cortes

Answer 2

Spanish conquistador, he conquered Mexico and brought about the fall of the Aztec Empire.

Question 3

Moctezuma II

Answer 3

Emperor of Mexico’s Aztec Empire, he welcomed explorer Cortés as a god but was taken prisoner by him. He was later killed, and the Aztec capital was destroyed during the following Aztec uprising.

Question 4

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 4

Spanish conquistador who sailed with Balboa on the discovery of the Pacific Ocean, he later pursued rumors of golden cities in the Andes Mountains of South America and conquered the Inca Empire.

Question 5

Encomienda System

Answer 5

a system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity

Question 6

Plantations

Answer 6

a large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit

Question 7

Bartolome’ de las casas

Answer 7

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