Name
Date
Africans
Atahualpa
Hernán Cortés
Montezuma
Guided Reading Activity 2-3
DIRECTIONS: Filling in the Blanks Use your textbook to fill in the blanks
using the words in the box. Use another sheet of paper if necessary.
Class
guns and cannons
fountain of youth
Hernando de Soto
plantations
Francisco Pizarro
Juan Ponce de León
settlements
Francisco Vásquez
de Coronado
diseases
slaves
class
Spanish Conquistadors
Spanish conquistadors received grants from Spanish rulers to explore and establish
landed on the east coast of Mexico.
(1)
in the Americas. In 1519 (2)
He was welcomed into the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán by the Aztec emperor
(3)
whom he then took prisoner. In 1532 (4)
captured the Inca ruler
(5)
and destroyed much of the Incan army. The conquistadors conquered
the Aztecs and Incas partly because the Spanish had weapons such as (6)
The Europeans unknowingly brought (7)
to which Native Americans
had no immunity
Spain in North America
(8), the first Spaniard to land on the mainland of North America, was
Tales of the "Seven Cities of Cibola" told by
searching for gold and the (9)
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1536 inspired the explorations of (10)
and (11)
Spanish Rule
The Spanish developed a complex (12) system in the Americas. The
Spanish government granted each conquistador the right to demand taxes or labor
from the Native Americans, which turned the Native Americans into (13)
Bartolomé de Las Casas helped improve conditions for Native Americans. By the
mid-1500s, however, the Spanish forced (14)
to work as slaves on the a
Spanish tobacco and sugarcane (15)
SECTION 2-3