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