Fact Sheet #3
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____________________________________1. This person, sailing under the Spanish
flag, conquered the famous and very rich Aztec empire in Mexico.
____________________________________2. This female slave, who aligned herself
with the Spanish conquerors, knew the language of the Aztecs and served as Cortez’s
primary translator.
____________________________________3. This language was the language of the
Aztec rulers in the highlands of central Mexico.
____________________________________4. This city was the capital city for the
Aztec empire.
____________________________________5. This person was the leader of the Aztecs
when the Spanish conquistadors came.
____________________________________6. One of the reasons that the Spanish had
such ready access to the capital city of the Aztecs was that the Aztec leader believed
Cortez was this god, whose return to the city was predicted by Aztec legends.
____________________________________7. The capital city of the Aztec empire,
located on an island, was connected to the mainland by a number of these.
____________________________________8. The capital city was supplied with fresh
water by using these.
____________________________________9. Clearly, the lust for this item was the
main motivating force driving the Spanish conquistadors.
____________________________________10. This modern day city now sits where the
capital of the great Aztec empire once sat.
____________________________________11. ________________________________
Two temples stood at the city’s sacred center, one (on the left) was dedicated to this rain
god, while the other (on the right) was dedicated to this tribal god, who required human
hearts for sustenance.
____________________________________12. The Aztec empire fell to the Spanish
conquistadors on this date after a lengthy siege by Cortez.
____________________________________13. This book contains what is probably the
first illustration of the Spanish conquistadors in the Americas.
____________________________________14. This was the way most of the trips to the
New World by the Spanish conquistadors were financed.
____________________________________15. Because Spanish soldiers were
forbidden to consort with pagan women, they quickly had their lovers converted to this
religion.
____________________________________16. This new race, a product of Spanish /
Indian marriages created a cultural and biological bridge between Latin America’s Indian
and European races.
____________________________________17. ________________________________
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These four countries reaped the greatest advantages from the New World.
____________________________________18. Explorers who originally hailed from
this country did much of the actual exploration of the New World.
____________________________________19. ________________________________
Major universities where scholars studied were established in these two cities in 1551,
85-years before Harvard became the first university established in North America.
____________________________________20. This Spanish settlement, established in
1565, is the oldest continually inhabited settlement in what is now the United States.
____________________________________21. This person, sailing under the British
flag in 1497 and 1498, explored the northeastern coast of North America, from
Newfoundland south to approximately the place where Maine sits today.
____________________________________22. This person, sailing under the French
flag in 1594, also explored the eastern seaboard of America, from approximately modern
day to Virginia.
____________________________________23. After this 1599 battle, the Spanish cut
off one foot of each survivor, then proclaimed the province of New Mexico in 1609 and
founded its capital at Santa Fe in 1610.
____________________________________24. For a time, this institution became the
central institution in colonial New Mexico.
____________________________________25. During this Indian rebellion in 1680, the
Indians destroyed every Catholic church in New Mexico and killed many priests and
settlers as well.
____________________________________26. The Indians rebuilt these ceremonial
religious chambers after their successful revolt in New Mexico.
____________________________________27. This mission, which later became the
site of a famous battle between Texans and Mexicans, was established in San Antonio,
Texas around 1724.
____________________________________28. In 1769, this Catholic priest, a
Franciscan friar, founded at San Diego, the first of 21 mission that wound their way up
the California coast as far as Sonoma.
____________________________________29. This myth, believed by many Indians,
and at least partly true, held that the Spanish conquerors merely tortured and butchered
the Indians, stole their gold, infected them with smallpox, and left nothing but misery
behind.