| A | B |
|---|
| The civilization that lived in Central Mexico. The capital city was Tenochtitlán. | Aztecs |
| The civilization that lived in South America. | Incas |
| The conquistador who conquered the Aztecs. | Hernán Cortés |
| The conquistador who conquered South America and killed Atahuallpa. | Francisco Pizarro |
| The Aztecs welcomed Cortés because they thought he was ________________. | the god Quetzacoatl |
| When Pizarro arrived, the two brothers Atahuallpa and Huascar were involved in a ______________, for control of the empire. | civil war |
| A land conquered by the conquistadors. | conquest |
| A Spanish conquerer. | conquistador |
| Several lands or territories ruled by one governor or country. | empire |
| A war fought between two groups from the same country. | civil war |
| Gifts of money given to explorers by the king. | grants |
| The main part of a continent. | mainland |
| Stories without proof. | rumors |
| Declaring that a person or country owns something. | claim |
| When soldiers run away from their responsibilities. | desertion |
| People who teach their religion to others. In the Americas many tried to convert the natives to Christianity. | missionaries |
| A settlement ruled by another country. | colony |
| Settlers, or people living in a colony. | colonists |
| Huge farms. | plantations |
| The first person from Spain to arrive in the United States. He was looking for the fountain of youth in Bimini, but instead landed in Florida. | Ponce de León |
| The conquistadors destroyed civilizations in the Americas, and abused the people becauese of ________________. | riches (gold, silver, etc.) and greed |
| The conquistador who searched for the "seven cities of gold," in Mexico. He did not find them, but claimed lands in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. for Spain. | Francisco Vásquez de Coronado |
| He searched for gold in the southeastern U.S., killing many Indians and claiming the land for Spain. | Hernando de Soto |
| The conquistadors made the Indians into ____________, forcing them to work for free with little food, water, or rest. | slaves |
| A Spanish priest who spent years trying to help the Indians who were slaves. | Bartolomé de las Casas |
| Many Indians were killed by | hard labor (overwork) and disease |
| After many of the Indians died and the Spanish needed more workers, they looked for more slaves in ________. | Africa |
| The ___________ began when Africans were kidnapped (taken by force) and taken in boats to the Americas as slaves. Many died on the boats before they arrived. | slave trade |
| Leader of the Aztecs when Cortes arrived in Mexico. | Montezuma |
