| Question | Answer |
| In 1519, who landed in Mexico with about 500 men and a few horses? | Hernan Cortes |
| What did Moctezuma believe Cortes was? | The God Quetzakcoatl, who, according to legend, had been driven away centuries earlier but had promised to return. |
| Under what ruler did the Aztecs resist fiercely, but were finally defeated in 1521? | Cuauhtemoc |
| In what century did the Incas began to expand rapidly, by the time of the Spanish conquest? | 15th Century |
| Unlike the Aztecs who extracted tribute fromtheir subject peoples, the Incas did what? | They compelled their subjectsto work for the state on a regular basis. |
| Who landed on the western coast of South Amerrica in 1532? | Francisco Pizarro |
| Pizarro lured who into a conference and then seized him, killing hundreds of his followers in the process? | Atahualpa, the Incan ruler |
| What year did Pizarro execute the Incan ruler? | 1533 |
| Incan resistance did not end until when? | the 1570s |
| What events in modern history are considered the most dramatic and brutal? | The conquest of Mexico and Peru |
| The Spanish conquests of the early 16th century marked the beginning of what? | The trasformation of South Americainto Latin America, |
| What European disease especially aided the conquest among the Native Americans? | Smallpox |
| Small military forces armed with what subdued in a remarkably brief time? | Advanced Weapons |
