One country taking over another area to be used for their benefit
Colonization
System run by Spanish priests to convert American Indians to Catholicism
Mission System
set of laws that were used to grant lands and establish a labor supply in Spanish colonies
Encomienda System
Spanish military leaders who conquered American Indians in 1500s
Conquistadors
to cause another to become part of one's culture or way of life
assimilate
A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.
epidemic
Last Aztec emperor
Montezuma II
Last Inca emperor
Atahualpa
Conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
