Download GUIDED READING Spanish Conquests in the Americas

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GUIDED READING
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Section 1
Spanish Conquests
in the Americas
A. Using Sequential Order As you read about the empire Spain built in the
Americas, take notes to answer questions about the time line below.
1492
Christopher Columbus sails
westward from Spain, hoping to
reach Asia.
1513- Balboa (1st European to cross
peninsula from Atlantic to Pacific)
explored the area of modern-day
Panama. Ponce de Leon landed on
the coast of modern-day Florida and
claimed Florida for Spain.
1519
1521
Ferdinand Magellan sets sail
on a voyage that rounds the
southern tip of South America.
Hernán Cortés conquers the
Aztec.
1. What was the significance of Columbus’s voyages?
Dispute w/ Portugal (Line of Demarcation);
began
process of European colonization in Americaclaimed land for Spain; initiated what became
known as the Columbian Exchange.
2. Magellan himself died in the Philippines. What was
the importance of the voyage his crew completed?
First to circumnavigate the world (returned in 1522)
3. What factors helped the Spanish defeat the Aztec?
Disease- measles, mumps, smallpox, typhus.
Guns
Used enemies of the Aztec
Conquistadors traveled to the Americas
for land and bullion.
4. How did the Spanish treat the peoples they
1533
1540
Francisco Pizarro conquers the
Inca Empire.
Spanish forced natives to speak Spanish Found little gold; led to the Spanish monarchy
convert to Catholicism.
assigning mostly priests to explore & colonize the
Peninsulares (Spanish settlers) married region.
native women creating a Mestizo
(mixed) population.
6. What was the long-term consequence of this
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
explores the Southwest.
AZ, NM, TX, OK, KS
1542
5. What was unique about the Spanish colonization
of the lands of New Mexico?
Spain abolishes the encomienda
system. Due to death & resistance of
natives; priests protest
against the system.
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action?
Importation of slaves from Africa
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conquered?
Forced labor under the encomienda system- a
grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the
Americas, including the right to use Native
Americans as laborers on it.