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European Colonizatio
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Spanish colonization system where colonist were given land grants and a certain number of Indian workers in exchange for teaching Christianity to the Indians is called the: | Encomienda System |
| Spanish conquerors were called: | Conquistadors |
| Name the Aztec Emperor who was killed during a fight between the Spanish and the Aztecs | Monteczuma II |
| Name the leader of the Spanish who conquered the Aztecs | Hernan Cortez |
| This cartographer (or map maker) discovered that Columbus had not reached India or Asia, but actually discovered a “New World | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Portuguese explorer who establish a trade route at the port of Calicut, India in 1498 | Vasco de Gama |
| Spanish conquistador of the Incas | Francisco Pizarro |
| Although he was killed before his voyage around the world was complete, he is given credit as the first to circumnavigate the globe | Ferdinand Magellan |
| Queen Isabella of Spain commissioned 3 ships to this Portuguese explorer in 1492; he discovered the “New World”, but never accepted that fact | Christopher Columbus |
| This created a line that divided the New World between Spain and Portugal | Treaty of Tordisallis |
| Native American Empire located in modern day Peru in the Andes Mountains; conquered in 1535 by the Spanish | Incas |
| The trade of goods, services, and ideas between cultures…especially between Europe and the Americas | Columbian Exchange |
| This Aztec god required human sacrifices be given | Huitzopochtli |
| This god of the Aztecs could be described as a “feathered snake” and was supposed to return and end the Aztec civilization | Quetzacoatl |
| Disease that devastated Native Americans as Europeans came into contact with them | Small Pox |