World History: Spain (Unit 5)
Conquistador
A Spanish conquerer in North America or South America (Vocabulary)
Viceroyalty
A Spanish province in Latin America administered by the crown or the Council of the Indies (Vocabulary)
Friars
A member of certain religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church (Vocabulary)
Mulatto
A person having one white and one black parent; being of white and black blood (Vocabulary)
Mestizo
A person of Spanish and American Indian descent (Vocabulary)
Encomienda
A policy whereby a certain number of Indian slaves were granted to landowners by the king (Vocabulary)
True
A storm, a strong current, and swift vessels helped the British defeat the Armada in 1588. (T/F)
Cuauhtemoc
An Aztec king and warrior (Vocabulary)
True
Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and Charles I of Spain were the same man. (T/F)
True
Charles V succeeded in uniting church and state. (T/F)
Tenochtitlan
City of Mexico (Vocabulary)
Hernando Cortes
Conquered the Aztecs (Vocabulary)
Francisco Pizarro
Conquered the Incas (Vocabulary)
Christopher Columbus
Discovered the New World (Vocabulary)
True
One of the reasons for the Thirty Years War was that Catholics were converting to Lutheranism and taking their lands with them. (T/F)
Council of the Indies
Spanish Latin America was governed by the king or the ________________.
Sovereignty
Supreme power or authority (Vocabulary)
Atahualpa
The Incan Emperor (Vocabulary)
Catholic
The ________________ church was responsible for presenting the gospel to the Indians.
Iconoclasm
The attacking of cherished beliefs or traditional institutions regardless whether based on error or superstition (Vocabulary)
Peonage
The condition or service of a person doing work that requires little skill (Vocabulary)
Quetzalcoatl
The great blond god of the Aztecs (Vocabulary)
Andes Mountains
The home of the Incas (Vocabulary)
Counter Reformation
The reconversion of people back to Catholocism (Vocabulary)
Ferdinand Magellan
Wanted to sail around the world (Vocabulary)
Opulence
Wealth; riches (Vocabulary)
Peninsular
What was the upper class of Latin America known as?
- encomienda - peonage
When the ________________ was abandoned because of a declining Indian population, a system of ________________ was formed.
