Unit 3 Conquest and Colonization

A Spanish soldier-explorer who sought personal riches and power, as well as wealth and glory for Spain, in the conquest of the Americas.

• conquistador

• missionary

• friar

• viceroy

Sailed across the Atlantic in 1492 and thought he landed west of India.

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernan Cortez

• Coronado

• de Pineda

What was the exchange of goods, ideas and disease called?

• Columbian Exchange

• Bermuda Triangle

• Trade Agreement

• Montezuma's revenge

What was Spain's exploration plan?

• They planned to sail west around the world to Asia.

• They planned to sail south around Africa to Asia.

• They planned to steal all the Spanish gold using their pirates.

• They planned to use the Silk Roads.

An economic belief that there is a fixed amount of wealth on earth and that a country will do whatever is necessary to acquire that wealth. It is government controlled and based on gold originally.

• mercantilism
• capitalism
• colonialism
• favorable balance of trade

The destruction of other civilizations and the theft of that civilizations resources is an example of

• colonialism.

• conquest.

• favorable balance of trade.

• triangular trade.

In colonizing the New World what was the early cash crop Europeans brought that needed slave labor to turn large profits?

• pumpkins

• sugarcane

• horses

• maize

The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the world between which two powers?

• Portugal and Spain

• Spain and France

• England and Spain

• England and the Netherlands

Hernán Cortes conquered which people & where?

• Aztec, modern-day Mexico

• Inca, modern-day Peru

• Mayan, modern-day Guatemala and the Yucatan

• Nuncanitos, South Wajiristan

The Spanish discovered a massive supply of silver in this landform

• Andes Mountains

• Lake Texcoco

• Amazon Rainforest

• The Gulf of Mexico