What’s Goin’ On? And Down Go the Aztecs! What Does it Mean? Phillip Vs. Elizabeth Spanish Colonization
This is the name of the event where three separate and distinct cultures came together on the North American continent around 1500?
What is the Great Convergence?
Wealthy African nations had been trading these two goods with European nations for hundreds of years.
What is gold and salt?
This plague effected the feudal system in Europe by killing thousands of serfs.
What is the bubonic plague?
Due to a desire to be a part of the spice trade, European nations searched for all- water route to this continent.
What is Asia?
This event led to increased trade with Asia and promoted exploration.
What is the Crusades?
He was the leader of the Aztecs.
Who is Montezuma?
Discovery of this precious metal led to further exploration of the Americas.
What is gold?
This conquistador traveled into South America and defeated the Incas.
Who is Pizarro?
He was the conquistador who defeated the Aztecs.
Who is Cortes?
These are the three reasons why Spain succeeded in conquering the Incas and the Aztecs.
What are superior weapons, spread of European diseases, and alliances with the enemies of the Incas and the Aztecs?
This agreement allowed Portugal to claim eastern South America.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This term describes an economic system with the goal of increasing the money in country’s treasure through colonization.
What is mercantilism?
This is the name of the person in charge of a viceroyalties.
What is a viceroy?
People of mixed Spanish and Native American blood were called this.
What are mestizos?
American crops came to Europe through this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
When the pope drew this imaginary line, he gave Spain the right to claim all Non-Christian lands in the Americas.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
Most European countries searched North America for this theoretical water route across the continent.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Queen Elizabeth’s break from this church in Rome made her an enemy of King Phillip and the rest of Europe.
What is the Catholic Church?
King Phillip of Spain wanted to rid England of Elizabeth because she was this.
What is Protestant?
The English defeat of this allowed England to remain independent and Protestant.
What is the Spanish Armada?
One of the goals of Spanish missions in the colonies was to convert Native Americans to this.
What is Christianity?
This is the belief that someone is inferior due to their race.
What racism?
Europeans believed that Africans were better slaves than Native Americans because they were accustomed to farming, they had no friends or family to help them escape, and they had immunity to these.
What are European diseases?
Sugar plantations depended on this type of labor to run effectively.
What is slave labor?
This provided the labor for haciendas.
What is an encomienda?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th?
The 15 th, 19 th, and 26 th amendments all protect citizens rights’ to do this.
What is vote?
This amendment played a role in the Supreme Court decisions in Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education.
What is the 14 th ?
This amendment stated the president and vice president would be elected separately.
What is the 12 th ?
This amendment says that a state government can’t be sued in a federal court.