Aztecs and Incas

__________________ is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish and Portugal.

• Sailors
• Penal colonies
• Conquistadors
• Monarchs

Capital of the Aztec Empire... It was in modern day Mexico City.

• Tenochtitlan
• Cuzco
• Havana
• Guadalupe

Capital of the Inca empire. Located in present day Peru.

• Tenochtitlan
• Cuzco
• Nunavut
• Guadalupe

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs

• Hernan Cortes
• Francisco Pizarro
• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco de Gama

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca

• Hernan Cortes
• Francisco Pizarro
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Vasco da Gama

Ruler of the Incas that was captured and executed by the Pizarro and the Spanish.

• Atahualpa
• Montezuma
• Tomichichi
• Lightfoot

The last Aztec emperor. He allowed Hernan Cortes into Tenochtitlan believing Cortes was a god but was later killed by Cortes and his men.

• Montezuma II
• Atahualpa
• Tomichichi
• Chief Chastain

How was such a small army of Spanish conquistadors able to conquer such large Aztec and Inca empire?

• Spaniards were armed with guns, armor, horses and diseases that helped wipe out the indigenous population
• The Aztec and Inca people joined the Spaniards so they wouldn't get killed or enslaved
• Spaniards poisoned the Aztec and Inca
• The many gods the Aztec and Inca had, put a curse on them but blessed the Spanish

What was the infectious disease that the Spanish transmitted to the Aztec and Inca civilizations that wiped out large numbers of their populations?

• small pox
• malaria
• influenza (the flu)
• Bubonic plague

Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro were explorers from which European nation?

• Spain
• Italy
• Portugal
• France