Social Studies Chapter 4 Jeopardy! Note: This is a great review for your upcoming Social Studies test and contains most, but not all, of the information on your study guide!

Spanish PeopleDead People and Some Not Dead People Free LaborEverything was great until Columbus showed up And then what happened? To final Jeopardy

This Spanish conquistador arrived looking for gold in Tenochtitlan Click for answer

Cortes Back to the board

This Spanish conquistador conquered Atahualpa and established the capital city of Lima, Peru

Francisco Pizarro

This Catholic missionary made it his mission to put an end to the system of encomiendas

Bartolome de las Casas

This African scout and Spanish priest believed that there existed 7 cities of gold, but one died before they could investigate

Estevanico and Fray Marcos de Niza

In 1540, he led a group of Spaniards, Africans, and Indians on a search for the 7 cities of gold in the SW United States

Francisco Coronado

This Aztec ruler thought Cortes was a god predicted by an Aztec legend to return at the time Cortes arrived. He was killed during fighting between the Aztecs & Spanish.

Moctezuma II

The Aztec ruler following Moctezuma II, he was captured and killed when the Spanish closed off all entrances to the city, so no food or water could reach the Aztec defenders

Cuauhtemoc

Leader of the Inca. He promised to fill his prison cell with gold if Pizarro would release him. He did his part, but Pizarro killed him anyway.

Atahualpa

This African slave escaped and was chased for 30 years, but never recaptured. He set up the city of San Lorenzo de los Negros.

Yanga

Also known as Malinche, she convinced many Indians to join Cortes to challenge the Aztec.

Dona Marina

This was a system where new colonists where given a large area of land that included Indian villages

encomiendas

DAILY DOUBLE

By 1568, there were less than 3 million Indians due to these two factors

Overwork and diseases

Native Americans in the encomienda system worked for free, but the colonists had to promise to do these four things for them

House them, feed them, teach them new skills, tell them about Christianity

By 1570, over 200,000 Africans had been taken to New Spain to perform these 3 tasks.

1. Grow Sugar Cane 2. Work in the mines 3. Load silver and other goods onto treasure ships bound for Spain

Under Spanish law, Africans could earn money in their spare time for the purpose of doing this

Buying their freedom

Before Columbus showed up, this tribe raided the Taino villages for 300 years and took captives

Carib

These three words in the English language come from the Taino people

Canoe, Hammock, Hurricane

When Columbus showed up, he thought he was in the Indies, so this is what the genius called the Taino people

Indios

These were the five most important items exchanged on the Columbian Exchange

Potatoes, maize, sugar, horses, and diseases (but diseases weren’t really “exchanged purposely”)

Historians believe that Columbus reached this island in the Bahamas, which he called San Salvador.

Watling Island

By 1535, Spain had built one of the world’s largest empires, stretching from Mexico to the southern tip of this continent

South America

DAILY DOUBLE

Many of the capital cities set up by conquistadors were designed with this building in the main square and wide streets leading out of the square

A Cathedral

These were two of the most prominent diseases brought to the New World by Europeans

Smallpox and measles

This King and Queen gave Columbus money for his expedition to the New World

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

The Taino were the largest group of members of this tribe of Indians, who had probably come from NE South America 7,000 years ago

Arawak

FINAL JEOPARDY

Capital Cities Write down how much you want to use on this question, fold it up and give it to the person running the game.

Describe the 3 main features of a typical European city, which conquistadors modeled capital cities after. Then, name the capital cities set up by Cortes and Pizarro.

Cathedral in the center of a main square, wide streets leading out of the square, buildings with wooden balconies. Capitals: Mexico City (Mexico), Lima (Peru)

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