5/6/13BR: Who were mestizos? Explain how the encomienda system worked.

Today: European Exploration of the New World– Who Explored and Where They Went? How did the European discovery of the “New” World Affect the People That Were Already There?

Let’s work together..• Get your reading quiz results• Pick up the new reading packet “Spain

Builds an American Empire”• Reading volunteers!• Read and summarize each section

(together)• Make test questions for each section• We will only be able to work on the

section today and tomorrow. We will have a quiz on this section on Tuesday!

Quiz Questions1. Christopher Columbus was

important for European Exploration becausea. He found tons of gold and silverb. He opened up the west for

further European Explorationc. He founded many Spanish

coloniesd. He sailed around the world

Quiz Questions2. Ferdinand Magellan was known most

fora. Being the first to circumnavigate

the earthb. Discovering Americac. Finding the Pacific Oceand. Inventing a new type of navigation

Quiz Questions3. Spanish explorers who followed

Hernando Cortés into the American mainland were known as____.

a. Indiosb. Coloniasc. San Salvadoresd. Conquistadors

4.Which of the following was NOT an advantage that Cortés used to conquer the Aztecs?a. Diseasesb. Advanced weaponsc. Using enemies of the Aztecsd. Human Sacrifice

5. What Spanish leader is responsible for the conquest of the Inca?

a.Hernando Cortezb.Christopher Columbusc.Francisco Pizarrod.Montezuma

5. This was the Spanish system that forced native workers to work for Spanish landlordsa. reconquistab. econmiendac. mestizod. colonia