Latin America Vocabulary Quizizz

a huge farm or ranch in Spain’s American colonies

• hacienda

• favela

• encomienda

a Brazilian slum

• aqueducts

• favela

• encomienda

a Spanish soldier/explorer; a soldier of fortune

• Aztec

• Maya

• conquistador

channels that are built to carry water from one place to the next

• favela

• hacienda

• aqueducts

the clearing of large numbers of trees

• deforestation

• aqueducts

• encomienda

Native Americans from around 1000 B.C. populating what is now Guatemala

• conquistador

• Maya

• Aztec

this was a legal system to control Native Americans in the Spanish colonies

• hacienda

• favela

• encomienda

a group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state

• colony

• conquistador

• deforestation

the exchange of resources between the old world (Europe) and the new world (the Americas)

• Maya

• the Columbia Exchange

• Aztec

Native Americans living in Mexico starting around 1200 A.D.

• conquistador

• Maya

• Aztec