| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Mezoamerican people who were conquered by the Spanish under Hernan Cortes, 1519-1528 | Aztec | 79%
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| The capital city of the Aztec Empire. The city was built on marshy islands on the western side of Lake Tetzcoco, which is the site of present-day Mexico City. | Tenochtitlan | 57%
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| The transatlantic flow of goods and people that began with Columbus's voyage in 1492 | Columbian Exchange | 43%
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| A Catholic missionary who renounced the Spanish practice of coercively converting Native Americans and advocated for their better treatment. In 1552, he wrote A Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies, which described the Spanish's cruel treatment of the Native Americans. | Bartolome de Las Casas | 36%
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| Uprising in 1680 in which the Pueblo temporarily drove Spanish colonists out of what is now New Mexico | Pueblo Revolt | 29%
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| The "reconquest" of Spain from the Moors completed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492. | Reconquista | 29%
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| A fifteenth century European ship capable of long-distance travel. | Caravel | 21%
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| Spanish term for conquerors, applied to Spanish and Portuguese soldiers who conquered land held by the indigenous people in America (particularly in Mexico, South America, and the Southern US). | Conquistadores | 21%
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| Settlers who signed on for a temporary period of servitude in exchange for passage to the New World; the colonies of Virginia and Pennsylvania had the biggest populations (mainly from England and Germany) | Indentured Servants | 21%
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| Spanish word for a person of mixed Native American and European ancestry | Mestizos | 14%
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| Idea that the Spanish New World empire was more oppressive towards Native America than other European empires; was used as a justification for English imperial expansion. | Black Legend | 7%
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| A place between or near recognized borders where no group of people has complete political control or cultural dominance. | Borderland | 7%
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| Persons born in the New World of European ancestry | Creoles | 7%
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| An alliance of the Iroquois tribes, originally founded between 1450 and 1600, that used their combined strength to pressure Europeans to work with them in the fur trade and wage war across what is today Eastern North America. | Great League of Peace | 7%
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| Large-scale farms in the Spanish New World empire worked by Native American laborers | Hacienda | 7%
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| The list of moral grievances against the Catholic Church by Martin Luther, a German priest, in 1517 | Ninety-Five Theses | 7%
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| Children of marriages between Native American women and French traders/officials | Metis | 0%
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| Spanish labor system under which Native Americans were legally free and able to earn wages but were also required to perform a fixed amount of labor yearly. Replaced the encomienda system. | Repartimiento System | 0%
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