Conquistadors

Which explorer was looking for 'cities of gold'?

• Pineda

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Coronado

• Cortez

I am the first European to walk into Texas? I was shipwrecked there and lived among the natives for several years?

• Cabeza de Vaca
• Pineda
• De Soto
• Fray Marcos

Which explorer searched for the Fountain of Youth?

• Ponce de Leon
• Columbus
• Balboa
• Cabot

Which of the following items did Europeans have, and Native Americans lack?

• Kings

• Religion

• Weapons

• Horses

Encomiendas were most similar to:

• Slave plantations in the old American South

• Large factory farms in the American Midwest

• Collective farms in the old Soviet Union

• Rice paddies in Southeast Asia

Who explored the Southeastern part of the United States and Mississippi River?

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Hernano Desoto
• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco de Gamma

Who was a conquistador who sailed to Mexico with many soldiers?

• Hernando Cortes
• Hernando Desoto
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Ferdinand Magellan

Fransisco Pizzaro is known for what?

• Defeating the Incas in modern day Peru
• Defeating the Aztecs in modern day Peru
• Defeating the Aztecs in modern day Portugal
• Portuguese waffle making

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec and conquered Tenochtitlan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando Cortez

• Francisco Pizarro

Indian woman who helped Cortez in his conquest of Tenochtitlan. Also known as La Malinche.

• Dona Maria

• Dona Marina

• Maria Cortez

• Cuahutemoc