Quiz 2: Portugal and Spain

City in Mexico

Tenochtitlan

a caste system distinction to describe a person of Spanish and African descent

mulatto

wealth; riches

opulence

In 1480, to divide the new lands between Spain and Portugal, the pope drew the first:

papal Line of Demarcation

the condition or service of a person doing work that requires little skill

peonage

supreme power or authority

sovereignty

great blond god of the Aztecs

Quetzalcoatl

What countries or areas did Portugal contact, colonize, or establish posts in?

Sumatra, China, Java, Africa, the New World, and Japan.

to sail around

circumnavigate

Which group of people represented part of the majority of the caste system in the New World?

mestizo

a caste system distinction to describe a person of Spanish and Indigenous descent

mestizo

a Spanish province in Latin America administered by the crown or the Council of the Indies

viceroyalty

Discovered the New World

Christopher Columbus

Prince Henry initiated a program of exploration to find a route to the East Indies, by sailing around

Africa

the home of the Incas

Andes Mountains

Incan emperor

Atahualpa

In 1487 Bartholomew Dias discovered the tip of Africa, which he called the:

Cape of Storms

Spanish Latin America was governed by the king or the _____.

Council of the Indies

the reconversion of people back to Catholicism

Counter Reformation

an Aztec king and warrior

Cuauhtemoc

wanted to sail around the world

Ferdinand Magellan

conquered the Incas

Francisco Pizarro

conquered the Aztecs

Hernando Cortes

a peninsula in southwestern Europe consisting of the countries of Spain and Portugal

Iberian Peninsula

an ethnic group of mixed Berber and Arab stock living in northwestern Africa

Moors

One of the reasons for the Thirty Years War was that Catholics were converting to Lutheranism and taking their lands with them.

True

Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach the East Indies by sea.

True

a Spanish conqueror in North America or South America

conquistador

a policy whereby a certain number of enslaved Indigenous people were granted to landowners by the king

encomienda

a member of certain religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church

friars

the attacking of cherished beliefs or traditional institutions regardless whether based on error or superstition

iconoclasm

Portugal had difficulty colonizing because they:

lacked resources, population, and size

Portugal's main source of economic support came through the business of _____.

trading