Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 77

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-Term referring to the Spanish explorers and soldiers who conquered lands in the New World.

• A)Acoma pueblo revolt
• B)Black Death
• C)Columbian exchange
• D)conquistadors
• E)creoles
• F)encomienda
• G)Incan empire
• H)New Spain
• I)Protestant Reformation
• J)Reconquest
• K)Tainos
• L)Treaty of Tordesillas

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