SS Ch2.3 Quiz Review

Hernan Cortes destroyed the powerful empire of the

• Maya

• Aztec

• Olmec

• Inca

Francisco Pizzaro conquered the ____ in 1532

The explorer who desired to find the fountain of youth was named

• Juana de la Cruz

• Montezuma

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Hernan Cortes

Spanish and Portuguese colonies in North and South America relied on _____ labor

SPanish explorers are also called

• conquistadors

• missionaries

• preists

• peninsulares

The Spanish built forts and stations all over the land they explored and conquered. they were called

• presidios

• peninsulares

• pueblos

Peninsulares are Spanish people who were members of the

the last leader of the Aztec civilization was

• Olmec

• Atahhualpa

• Montezuma

• Cortes

After the arrival of Europeans to the Americans how did many natives die?

Which explorer is credited with the first circumnavigation of the Earth?

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus