Students complete nine fill-in-the-blank problems about disease mortality rates, the encomienda system, and displacement of Native lands. The matching activity pairs Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Christopher Columbus, and Jacques Cartier with their exploration achievements.
Matching Spanish and other European explorers to their specific conquests and routes builds the comparative knowledge students need to understand how different European powers shaped different parts of the Americas.
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Exploration & Colonization
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. European diseases killed between 50 and 90 percent of some Native populations.
2. The Spanish used the encomienda system to force Native Americans to work.
3. Native Americans were displaced from their traditional lands.
4. Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
5. Francisco Pizarro defeated the Inca Empire in South America.
6. The colony of Rhode Island was founded on religious tolerance.
7. Native Americans taught colonists to grow crops like corn and squash.
8. Many Native American cultures and languages were destroyed by colonization.
9. The first Thanksgiving celebrated cooperation between Pilgrims and Wampanoag people.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
Hernan Cortes
→ conquered the Aztecs
reached the Caribbean
Francisco Pizarro
→ conquered the Incas
conquered the Aztecs
Christopher Columbus
→ reached the Caribbean
explored St. Lawrence
Jacques Cartier
→ explored St. Lawrence
conquered the Incas
Exploration & Colonization
★ Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1) European diseases killed between 50 and 90 percent of some Native populations.
2) The Spanish used the encomienda system to force Native Americans to work.
3) Native Americans were displaced from their traditional lands.
4) Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
5) Francisco Pizarro defeated the Inca Empire in South America.
6) The colony of Rhode Island was founded on religious tolerance.
7) Native Americans taught colonists to grow crops like corn and squash.
8) Many Native American cultures and languages were destroyed by colonization.
9) The first Thanksgiving celebrated cooperation between Pilgrims and Wampanoag people.
★ Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1) Match each item to its correct answer.
Hernan Cortes
→ conquered the Aztecs
reached the Caribbean
Francisco Pizarro
→ conquered the Incas
conquered the Aztecs
Christopher Columbus
→ reached the Caribbean
explored St. Lawrence
Jacques Cartier
→ explored St. Lawrence
conquered the Incas
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