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WorksheetsUnit 2 Spanish Colonization
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which Culture Zone did the Aztecs and Mayans live in?
Great Plains
Southwest
Mesoamerica
Pacific Northwest
Which explorer is credited with the discovery of the New World?
Columbus
Pizarro
Cortes
De Soto
Between what years did the Spanish battle the Aztecs?
1492-1493
1800-1820
1776-1781
The Columbian exchange was the exchange of?
People and Disease
Plants and Animals
Ideas and Culture
All of the Above
Who was Hernan Cortes?
A Spanish Merchant who bought and sold expensive goods from the New World to the Old World.
A Catholic Priest who spread Christianity in the Americas.
A Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
A famous map maker who named the Americas and charted it American Coasts.
The conquistador (a) took over the Inca?
The (a) of people lived in the Andes Mountains?
What was the capital of the Aztecs? (a)
San Francisco
Mexico City
Machu Picchu
Peru
Tenochtitlan
The Aztec were located in what is now (a) ?
Who is Montezuma II?
A warrior king of the Aztecs
A title given to a Spanish military man
An Explorer from Portugal
A prince from Spain
Atahualpa was the king of the _______?
Olmecs
Mayans
Aztecs
Inca
What was the capital of the Inca Empire?
Lima
Santa Barbara
Cuzco
Barcelona
Bartolomé de las Casas wrote a letter about what?
The great things Spain was doing in the New World
The need to expand the Missions System
The need to end the Encomienda System
A story book detailing the fabled city of El Dorado
The Encomienda System was
A forced labor
The way Europeans handled all their money
A system of watering crops in dry climates
A road way across all of the Spanish Colony
What did the Mission System set out to do?
It heavily taxed the Spanish.
It broke treaties with the Native Americans.
It was used to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
It was a way to keep Spain from being too harsh on the Native Americans
True or False, Did New Spain have a Caste System?
True
False
What does EEP stand for?
Evolution, Exchange, Pedigree
Exchange, Empire, Property
Exploration, Exchange, People
Explain, Evolve, Plan
What are the 3 Gs?
Greatness, Glamour, Greed
God, Gold, Glory
Go, Get, Gold
Grandeur, Glory, Greed
What was the Spanish Armada?
The Spanish Cavalry
The Spanish Royalty
The Spanish Navy
The Spanish Colony
What happened to the Spanish Armada?
The Armada was defeated by the English.
The Armada disappeared into a huge storm.
The Armada would be strong until the Fall of Spain in the 1800s.
The Armada never existed, it was all a trick.
What tactic did the English use to defeat the Armada?
Superior Weapons
Fire Boats
Giant Horses
The English did not win this battle.
What did the fall of the Spanish Armada do for all of Europe?
It made Europe fear the English and they stopped settling the New World.
It made Europe fear the Spanish and ruined ties between countries in the Old World.
It ended Spanish control of the seas and opened up routes to the New World.
It closed Europe off from the New World and ended the Columbian Exchange.
What are the two greatest motivators in life?
Food and Water
Education and Wealth
Power and Success
Money and Power
90% of the Native American population died from (a) after the Spanish arrived in the New World?
What did the Spanish name their colonies in the Americas?
New World
New Spain
New Mexico
New Peru
