Question | Answer |
Conquistador | A Spanish conqueror |
Ally | a friend who will help in a fight |
Conquest | The capture or taking of something by force |
Convert | To change from one religion to another |
Colonist | A person who lives in a colony |
Hernando Cortes | a Spanish conquistador or conqueror. |
Where did Hernando Cortes arrive | He arrived in Mexico in 1519 |
Why did Hernando Cortes go to Mexico | He heard about the riches of the Aztecs and he planned to take over the Aztec Empire. |
The Aztecs | Outnumbered Cortes and his forces |
What advantages did Herdando Cortes and the Spanish have? | armor, guns and horses. They |
What weapons did the Aztecs have | stone weapons |
What armor did the Aztecs have | They had no armor to protect themselves from the Spanish bullets. |
What were the Aztecs afraid of? | They were afraid of horses because they had never seen them before. |
Conquistador | A Spanish conqueror |
Ally | a friend who will help in a fight |
Conquest | The capture or taking of something by force |
Convert | To change from one religion to another |
Colonist | A person who lives in a colony |
Hernando Cortes | a Spanish conquistador or conqueror. |
Where did Hernando Cortes arrive | He arrived in Mexico in 1519 |
Why did Hernando Cortes go to Mexico | He heard about the riches of the Aztecs and he planned to take over the Aztec Empire. |
The Aztecs | Outnumbered Cortes and his forces |
What advantages did Herdando Cortes and the Spanish have? | armor, guns and horses. They also had allies who helped them. |
What weapons did the Aztecs have | stone weapons |
What armor did the Aztecs have | They had no armor to protect themselves from the Spanish bullets. |
What were the Aztecs afraid of? | They were afraid of horses because they had never seen them before. |
What disease did the Spanish bring to Mexico? | Smallpox. It killed many Aztecs. |
What year did Cortes defeat the Aztec Emprie? | 1521 |
After the Spanish conqured the Aztecs what did they destroy? | Tenochtitlan. |
Tenochtitlan | The Aztec capitol |
What colony did the Spanish found in 1535? | New Spain |
What did the Spanish do when they established New Spain? | They set up a government, made laws, and built schools. Catholic priests also traveled to New Spain to set up churches and convert the Indians to Christianity. |
Where did people come from to live in New Spain? | People came from Spain and they started farms, businesses, and gold and silver mines. |
Francisco Pizarro | spanish conquistidor who Conquered the Incan Empire for Spain |
Where was the Incan Empire | it was located in the south of Mexico, in what is now Peru in South America. |
Pizarro captured the leader of the Incas in 1532 and the capital of the Incas in 1535 what did he name the new Spanish colony he founded? | Peru |
The spanish and the native people continued to fight until most of the native people were defeated. Then a new culture developed. What was it a mixture of? | It was a mixture of Spanish culture and the native peoples. |
Moctezuma | The leader of the Aztecs in the capitol chity tenochtitlan |
Mexico city | the capitol and largest city of Mexico, built as the capitol of new spain |
Donna Marina | Aztec women who became an inturperter for Hernando Cortez. |
Cuzco | Inca capitol |
Lima | Spanish capitol |
Atahualpa | The leader of the Inca tribe |
Colonist | person who lives in a colony |