Trizna Apush Flashcards - Period 1

New World conqueror or Spanish conquistador who crushed the Incan civilization in Peru, took their goldand silver, and enslaved the Incas in 1532

A Spanish conquistador. He explored in 1540's from Florida west to the Mississippi with six hundred menin search of gold. He discovered the Mississippi River, before being killed by Indians and buried in the river.

Aztec chieftain who encountered Cortes and the Spanish and seeing that they rode horses, Montezuma assumedthat the Spanish were gods. He welcomed them hospitably, but the explorers soon turned on the natives, crushed them, andruled them for three centuries

An Italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish government to find a passage to the Far East.He is given credit for discovering the "New World," even though at his death he believed he had made it to India. He made fourvoyages to the "New World." The first sighting of land was on October 12, 1492, and three other journeys until the time of hisdeath in 1503.

In 1494, Spain and Portugal were disputing the lands of the New World, so the Spanish went to thePope, and he divided the land of South America for them. Spain got the vast majority, the west, and Portugal got the east

The mixed race of people created when the Spanish intermarried with the surviving Indians inMexico.

Lived in the Ohio River Valley and the Mississippian culture of the lower Midwest didsustain some large settlements after the incorporation of corn planting into their way of life during the first millennium A.D.The Mississippian settlement at Cahokia, near present-day East St. Louis, Ill., was perhaps home to 40,000 people in about A.D1100. But mysteriously, around the year 1,300, both the Mound Builder and the Mississippian cultures had fallen to decline

"Invincible" group of ships sent by King Philip II of Spain to invade England in 1588. The Armada wasdefeated by smaller, more maneuverable English "sea dogs" in the English Channel. This event marked the beginning ofEnglish naval dominance and fall of Spanish dominance

The idea developed during North American colonial times that the Spanish utterly destroyed the Indiansthrough slavery and disease and left nothing of value. In truth, there was good along with the bad (architecture, religion,government, etc.)

Spanish explorers that invaded Central and South America for its riches during the 1500s. In doing so, theyconquered the Incas, Aztecs, and other Native Americans of the area. Eventually, they intermarried with these tribes

A powerful Native American empire who lived in Mexico. Their capital was Tenochtitlan. Theyworshipped everything around them, especially the sun. Cortes conquered them in 1521.

These were developed to gather the savings from the middle class to support finance colonies.Examples were the London Company and Plymouth Company. They’re the forerunner of modern day corporations

In 1519, his crew began a voyage and eventually ended up becoming the first to circumnavigate theworld, even though he died in the Philippines. The sole surviving ship returned to Europe in 1522

A Spanish missionary who was appalled by the method of encomienda systems, calling it “a moralpestilence invented by Satan.”

Annihilator of the Aztecs in 1519.