APUSH: Period 1 & 2 Review Questions and Answers with complete solution

encomienda - A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it asiento system - Required the Spanish to pay a tax to their king on each slave they imported to the Americas bering land bridge - Historians believe that the earliest Americans came over the______ which connected Asia and North America maya - A Meso-American civilization, which reached its height between a.d. 250 and 900 inca - a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the spanish conquest aztec - A Mesoamerican civilization of Mexico who created a strong empire that flourished between the 14th and 15th century. The arrival of Hernando Cortez and the Spanish Conquistadores ended their empire. conquistadors (cortes, pizarro) - Cortes defeated Aztecs of mexico in 1521, Pizarro defeated Incas of W. S. Am. in 1531. Took over and exploited ppl and land. Started new econ. in conquered areas roanoke - Established in 1587. Called the Lost Colony. It was financed by Sir Walter Raleigh, and its leader in the New World was John White. All the settlers disappeared, and historians still don't know what became of them. columbus - A skilled italian who sailed for spain west into the Atlantic Ocean looking for a way to Asia,and to trade he discovered an island called Hispaniolatreaty of tordesillas - 1494 dividedthe Atlantic world between two maritime powers, reserving for Portugal the West African coast and the route to India and giving Spain the oceans and the lands to the west iriquois confederation - North American confederation of indigenous tribes: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.