EVALUATION Cultural Changes and Castas

The idea of conquering new territories was to obtain 3 different things:

• silver and gold

• evangelization

• give power to the King and Queen of Spain.

• nickel and cooper

What we know today like Mexico, was called _____

• New Spain

• Spain the great

• New Mexico

• Mexico - Tenochtitlan

_________________ and __________________ travelled all around the territory founding new cities and changing the landscape.

• conquerors and religious orders

• kings and queens

• Cortés and the Malinche

• Juan de Grijalva and Christopher Colombus

The process of taking new territory was called _________

• evangelization

• behaviorism

• colonization

• frailes

Religious groups started to teach indigenous people about the ______________.

• Catolic religion

• frailes

• Christiansism

Religious groups started to teach indigenous people about the Christianism, changing the beliefs of ....

• adoring only one god into adoring many gods

• from adoring many gods into believing only in one.

Some mesoamerican festivities were mixed with the catholic religion, for example, _____________

• Halloween

• Día de Muertos

• Christmas

• La Batalla de Puebla

This is an example of how the cultures mixed.

• altars

• churches

• the new religion

• Quetzalcoatl

Spanish from Spain suffered modifications in our territory, adopting many words that have their origin in the Nahuatl language and other regional idioms.

One example is

• guajolote

• acelgas

• cabra

• gallina

Is a term used to describe the mixed-race individuals in New Spain, resulting from unions of European whites, Mesoamerican people, and African slaves.

• evangelization

• castas

• slaves