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.