New Spain

Conquistador is ________________.

• a name for any explorer that claimed territory

• a name for the Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain

• a name for a person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony

What is a mission?

• A large estate farmed by many workers

• A religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars

• Land granted to Spanish settlers that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans

What is the definition of mestizo?

• In Spain’s American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background

• Land granted to Spanish settlers that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans

• Large estate farmed by many workers

Which of the following was a negative effect of colonization in South America?

• new religious traditions
• new languages
• Columbian Exchange
• expansion of slavery

What is one main reason the Spanish conquered the Aztecs?

• to steal their food

• to take their gold

• to learn their religion

• to live in their temples

Check all the reasons why the Spanish explored and settled in New Spain.

• power

• wealth

• spread Christianity

• freedom from Spain

What is true about St. Augustine, Florida?

• It is the only colony settled by Spain.

• It was the first European permanent settlement in America.

• It has French influenced architecture.

• It is very different today than it was in the 1600s.

What were the actual effects of the Encomienda System in the real world?

• It made a few Spanish lords extremely rich and resulted in Spain becoming the richest country in Europe (maybe in the whole world)

• It caused Spanish culture and religion to spread throughout the New World.

• It helped native peoples to become happy and wealthy and share their cultures freely and equally with Europeans.

• It resulted in Indigenous peoples being basically enslaved and killed due to disease, overwork, and poor nutrition.

• It contributed to the growth of the African slave trade, causing millions of persons to be enslaved, forcibly moved across the sea, and exploited, for centuries.

What did the Spanish claim as the purpose of the Encomienda system?

• To make Spanish kings and lords more wealthy and powerful

• To protect and care for the indigenous people, bringing them the advanced culture of Spain and the One True Faith

• To establish a global colonial empire for Spain

• To become the most wealthy and powerful nation in Europe.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade officially began with which country?

• Britain

• Italy

• Portugal

• Denmark