WH2 - Conquest in the Americas

How the Spanish treated the Taino natives.

• friendly

• harshly

• neutrally

After Columbus, the native population in the Caribbean fell by this percentage.

• 30%

• 50%

• 90%

• 70%

Europeans unknowingly bought this to the Americas.

• diseases

• poison

• mold

• horses

Where did Columbus, the first Conquistador, land?

• East Indies

• West Indies

• India

• West America

Where in the Americas did Cortes land?

• Hispaniola

• Florida

• Peru

• Mexico

Who conquered the Inca Empire?

• Hernan Cortes

• Francisco Pizarro

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco de Gama

Who was king of the Aztecs when Cortes arrived in Mexico?

• Philip II

• Quetzalcoatl

• Ferdinand I

• Moctezuma

What were the native Americans forced to search for by the Conquistadors?

• gold

• cures to diseases

• food

• path to the Pacific

Besides Spanish weapons, what also killed many Aztecs?

• mumps

• chicken pox

• poison

• smallpox

Cortes formed these with other native Americans to help him take on the Aztecs.

• armies

• friendships

• tribes

• alliances