The Spanish Colony in the Americas

rulers

• Monarchs

• Missionary

• Class structure

• Encomienda

A gift of land by the King of Spain, which gave a person control over the land and the people living there.

• Monarchs

• Encomienda

• Missionary

• Class structure

A system for ranking people, often according to power or wealth.

• Monarchs

• Encomienda

• Class structure

• Missionary

Someone who travels to a new land to persuade others to believe in a particular religion.

• Monarchs

• Encomienda

• Class structure

• Missionary

Who set up a colony in the Americas that changed the lives of American Indians forever?

• The Spanish

• The Africans

• The French

Which are the 3 reasons for which the Spanish people wanted to conquer America?

• wealth

• power

• Catholic Religion

• to help the Americans

In what is today Mexico, Spain conquered the Aztecs and by the mid-

• 1500

• 1400

• 1200

• 3000

Spain controlled a large colony in the Americas and called it ...

• New Spain

• New Mexico

• New America

Spanish leaders sent _______________ back to Spain.

• people

• horses

• treasures

• boats

American Indians did most of the mining for gold and silver work for the ________________

• king

• Spaniards

• France

• Africa