Spanish Explorers and Spanish Colonies -Klepeisz

First person to realize the Americas were not Asia, but a new continent

• Columbus

• Balboa

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Hernan Cortes

Spanish soldier/explorers

• conquistadores

• patrons

• haciendas

• encomodias

Conquered the Inca empire

• Pizarro

• Cortes

• Balboa

• Vespucci

First European to cross Central America to see the Pacific Ocean.

• Balboa

• Pizarro

• Cortes

• Pizarro

First European to land in North America (Florida)

• Balboa

• Ponce de Leon

• Walt Disney

• Cortes

First European to explore the American Southwest (New Mexico and Arizona)

• Balboa

• Ponce de Leon

• Coronado

• Cortes

The fabled 'City of Gold' sought by Coronado

• Cincinnati

• El Dorado

• Epcot

• Venice

Spanish conquistador who took over the Aztec Empire and founded Mexico City on the ruins

• Cortes

• Ponce de Leon

• Pizarro

• Balboa

A large grant of land in the Americas to a conquistador.

• Encomienda

• Hacienda

• Farmilia

• Manor

This group worked the land of the patron on the Hacienda..

• peones

• campesinos

• patrons

• Encomienda