Module 2, Lessons 3 & 4: New Empires in the Americas

A Spanish conqueror who founded New Spain and defeated the Aztec empire

• Francisco Pizarro

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Hernan Cortes

a Spanish soldier who led military expeditions in the Americas

• mestizo

• conquistador

• conqueror

• viceroy

The capital of the Aztecs

• Tenochtitlan

• Titicaca

• Moctezuma

• Malintzin

An Aztec ruler who was kidnapped and killed by Cortes

• Malintzin

• Muscogee

• Tuscaloosa

• Moctezuma II

A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca empire

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Hernando de Soto

Which is NOT a reason for Spanish victory of the Native Americans?

• European diseases

• Lack of Spanish alliances with enemies of native groups

• Superior weapons

• Spanish horses

When the Spanish first came to the Americas, they sent families.

• True

• False

People who are part Spanish and part Native American

• viceroy

• Mestizo

• Malintzin

• hacienda

a Royal governor

• Mestizo

• viceroy

• camino

• hacienda

Vast estates in Central and South America where natives helped to raise and heard livestock

• Mestizo

• viceroy

• camino

• hacienda