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Spanish Lecture 4
Question | Answer |
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Who was Christopher Columbus? | The first explorer who went to the Americas |
Why did Columbus go on his journey West from Southern Spain? | To find a new sea and lucrative route to the Orient |
What did Columbus find? | Highly-developed civilisations |
Why were the American civilisations highly developed? | They had great hallmarks including great farming methods e.g. clearing large spaces of forest |
Who did Hernan Cortes kill? | The Aztec leader Montezuma II |
Who was Francisco Pizzaro? | A Spanish Conquistador that conquered the Incan Empire. |
What are "blancos criollos" or creoles? | Spaniards born in the Americas |
Why did the Spaniards bring the Africans to the Americas? | They were to work for the Spaniards as slaves. |
Where did the first independence movement of Latin America start? | In Mexico. |
When was the de facto independence of Latin America start? | December of 1824. |