European Empires in the Americas 1500-1700

Cortes and the Spanish defeated the Aztec empire within

• 2 years

• 4 years

• 5 years

• 10 years

Francisco Pizarro set up his capital in

• Santiago

• Buenes Aires

• Sao Paolo

• Lima

Cortes decided the best way to control the Aztec would be to

• capture Montezuma

• join forces with Pizarro

• negotiate with the leaders

• burn Tenochtitlan

To prevent his troops from returning to Europe or Cuba, Cortez

• burned his ships

• kept them in chains

• refused to pay them

• locked away his maps

In 1608 Champlain establish _______, the first permanent French settlement

• New Spain

• New York

• Quebec

• St. Augustine

Unlike the Spanish, French settlers tried to

• enslave Native Americans

• end the fur trade

• explore the Southwest

• accept Native American ways

To encourage settlement in New France, the king set up a land grant system that gave land to French

• farmers

• prisoners

• priests

• nobles

The Dutch came to America because of the

• plantation lifestyle

• fur trade

• religious freedom

• fishing opportunities

The science of piloting ships or aircrafts

• Caravel

• Navigation

• Renaissance

• Strait

Spain called the southern part of its American empire?

• Lima

• Peru

• New Spain

• Portugal