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Peaceful people sent to convert natives to Christianity.
Conquistadors
Missionaries
Europeans
Explorers
Europeans who conquered and claimed land for their home country using force.
Conquistadors
Priests
Aztecs
Missionaries
Imaginary line drawn by Pope Alexander VI that split Portugal and Spain for land claiming purposes.
Line of Symmetry
Line of Scrimmage
Equator
Line of Demarcation
This treaty between two countries moved the boundary line 800 miles west of where Pope Alexander VI originally placed it.
Treaty of Greenville
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Tordesillas was between which two countries?
Spain and Portugal
Brazil and Spain
Spain and America
Spain and Great Britain
What three reasons did Europeans want to explore the Americas and conquer new lands?
God, Gold, Glory
This economic system is when the colony's purpose is to enrich the mother country.
Missionaries
Treaty
Mercantilism
Conquering
Name 2 of the 4 reasons why the Spanish conquered the Aztecs and Incas.
Native Americans believed the Spanish were gods. Disease wiped out Native Americans. Enemy tribes allied with Spanish. Spanish superior weapons and soldiers.
This European explorer was one of the first to believe that the Americas were not a part of Asia (Hint: They named the Americas after him).
Amerigo Vespucci
Francisco Pizarro
Christopher Columbus
Montezuma
Who was the Aztec Chief that was conquered?
Atahualpa
Montezuma
Who was the Incan Chief that was conquered?
Atahualpa
Montezuma
Who was the first man to sail west in search of a faster route to Asia? He landed in Central America in 1492.
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Hernando Cortes
Who was the first to sail up the coast of California by sea?
Hernando de Soto
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Who was the explorer in search of mythical cities in the SouthEAST, who died and was buried in the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Who was the first explorer to lead a voyage around the world? (Hint: He was killed before he completed the voyage).
Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco de Vasquez Coronado
Explored American SouthWEST in search of mythical cities.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Ferdinand Magellan
