Spanish Exploration

Question 1

How did Spain benefit from the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas?

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The treaty kept Portugal out of most of the Americas.

Question 2

How did Spanish colonists acquire workers through the repartimiento system?

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by forcing Indigenous people to work

Question 3

What did Spanish colonists build in the Americas to help convert people to Catholicism?

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missions

Question 4

What convinced Inca armies to retreat in their war against the Spanish in 1533?

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The Spanish executed their emperor.

Question 5

One of the reasons Spain spread Christianity in the Americas was to gain favor with

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the pope.

Question 6

Which religion did Spain hope to spread in its American colonies?

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Roman Catholicism

Question 7

How did the encomienda system benefit Spain?

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It forced Indigenous people to work on farms and in mines.

Question 8

Why did Pizarro and his forces attack the Inca and capture their emperor, Atahualpa?

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Atahualpa would not accept Christianity.

Question 9

What was one similarity between the encomienda and repartimiento systems of Spanish colonial America?

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Both forced Indigenous people to work for colonists as farmers and miners.

Question 10

In 1492, Spain sent Christopher Columbus to

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look for a new route to India.

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