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Exploring the Conquistadors: A Quiz on Spanish Conquest

Test your knowledge on the Spanish Conquistadors and their impact on the Americas with this engaging quiz. Explore key figures, events, and laws that shaped the era of conquest.

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1 In their first contacts with native peoples, firearms and especially ________ were very formidable weapons due to the great impression on morale because of the noise, flash and smoke.

2 Sebastián de Belalcázar (Ecuador and ________, 1533–1536)

3 Juan Ponce de León (Puerto Rico, 1508, ________, 1513–1521)

4 The leaders of the conquest of the ________ were Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado.

5 Cristóbal de Olid (________, 1523–1524)

6 Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (________, 1524–1527)

7 Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (________, 1536–1537, Venezuela, 1569–1572)

8 ________ led the conquest of the Incan Empire.

9 Pedro de Valdivia (________, 1540–1552)

10 The ________, created in 1512–1513, were the first codified set of laws governing the behavior of Spanish settlers in America, particularly with regards to Native Americans.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Chilean wine grape Pais is believed to have descended from the "common black grape" that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought to Mexico in 1520.
  • the Mam Maya capital city of Zaculeu (fragment pictured) fell to Spanish conquistador Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez after a siege that lasted several months.
  • the town of Hueyapan in the Mexican state of Morelos was conquered by the female conquistador Maria de Estrada.
  • the 2003 book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by ethnohistorian Matthew Restall debunks seven popularly held beliefs about how Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs.
  • at the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532 the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was captured by Pizarro's conquistadors and that the battle was a decisive victory in the Spanish conquest of Peru.
  • Pedro Pizarro, a Spanish chronicler and conquistador, took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru and wrote an account of it.
  • Sandia Pueblo in central New Mexico was discovered by Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1539 while on an expedition to discover the seven Cities of Cibola.
  • 17th-century French buccaneer Montbars the Exterminator attacked Spanish settlements in the New World, after reading about conquistador atrocities.
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