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