CHAPTER 4 STUDY GUIDE
SPAIN BUILDS AN EMPIRE
KNOW ALL VOCABULARY WORDS-PGS. 134, 142, 146
LESSON 1-THE VOYAGES OF COLUMBUS
1. Why did Columbus sail west on his first expedition?
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2. Name 2 reasons Columbus made more voyages to the West Indies.
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3. What was the Columbian Exchange?
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4. What happened as a result of the Columbian Exchange?
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5. How did Columbus’s voyages impact the Americans?
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LESSON 2-DIFFERENT WORLDS COLLIDE
1. What factors helped Cortes to defeat the Aztecs?
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2. After Cortes conquered the Aztecs, who conquered the Incan empire?
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3. What colony was founded after the defeat of the Incan empire?
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LESSON 3-LIFE IN NEW SPAIN
1. What happened first in Spain’s search for gold?
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2. What happened after Esteban’s death in what is now New Mexico?
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3. What effect did European ocean trade routes have?
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4. Put the following groups in order according to New Spain’s colonial
society from most powerful to least powerful. (peninsulares, Africans
and Indians, creoles, mestizos)
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5. What was the Indians’ life like on an encomienda?
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6. Why did the Spanish landowners want to keep slaves?
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7. What was Las Casas’s point of view on Indians in the encomienda
system?
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