Download NAME: Leah Baratz Spanish Conquests in the Americas 1. What

NAME: Leah Baratz
Spanish Conquests in the Americas
1.
What was the significance of Columbus’s voyages?
Began the process of colonization of the America’s.
2.
Magellan himself died in the Philippines. What was the importance of
the voyage his crew completed?
They were the first persons to circumnavigate, or sail around, the world.
3.
What factors helped the Spanish defeat the Aztec?
Superior weapons, aid of natives, European diseases they were not immune to
4.
How did the Spanish treat the peoples they conquered?
Exploited them, intermarried, imposed their culture on them, enslaved them.
5.
What was unique about the Spanish colonization of the lands of New
Mexico?
Settle by priests and colonized by priests.
6.
What was the long-term consequence of the encomienda system?
Replacement of Native American labor with African forced labor. Enslavement of
Africans.
Peninuslaries (people
born in Spain or Portugal)
Creoles (People born in America with
Mestizo:
1/2 European
1/2 Native American
Mulatto:
1/2 European
1/2 African
Native Americans and Africans