SOC :: Encounter btw America & Europe and Tenochtitlan Review

Why did Christopher Columbus travel to America?

• He wanted to conquer a different place

• He was trying to get a new route for getting to India

• He was fighting a war

What is a conquistador?

• A person that fights to claim a territory as his own.

• A person that is in search of new territories.

• A person that likes to party.

What is an explorer?

• A person in search of new territories.

• A person that fights to claim a territory as his own.

• A person who likes to study living and non living things.

What were the names of the three conquistadors that came to Mexico?

• Francisco González, Eugenio Derbéz and Fernando Montes de Oca

• Christopher Columbus, Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Boccelli

• Francisco Hernández de Córdova, Juan Grijalva and Hernán Cortés

What city did Hernán Cortés conquer?

• Tenochtitlan

• Minatitlan

• Teotihuacan

Papaya and pineapple are products from

• Europe

• Mesoamerica

• Asia

Year when the first Spaniards started coming to Mexican territory

• 1514

• 1517

• 1520

• 1521

Who was the Tlatoani in Tenochtitlan when Cortés arrived?

• Cuauhtemoc

• Moctezuma

• Cuitlahuac

What was the name of the translator that helped Hernán Cortés to communicate with Aztec people?

• La Malinche (Malitzin)

• Francisco Hernández de Córdova

• Juan de Grijalva

What did the Spaniards do to create a bigger army to fight against the Aztecs?

• They brought everyone they knew from Europe.

• They created alliances with other indigenous groups that were not very happy with the Mexicas

• They waited until more European people could arrive to Mexican territory.