Return to Unit List Grade 6 Lesson Review Unit 4: The World Expands and Changes Chapter 14: Technology and Expansion Lesson 3: Conquering the Americas   Type your name:   Dividing the Americas In 1494, Portugal and Spain agreed on the Line of DemarcationMestizosCreolesMissionariesSelect your answer. This imaginary line divided the world in half. Territory west of the line was SpainPortugueseCreolesSpanishSelect your answer. Territory to the east was SpainSpanisheastern CanadaPortugueseSelect your answer. Portugal claimed Brazil because an explorer named Pedro Cabral set sail for India in 1500, but a storm blew his ships to what is now Brazil. The Spanish Conquests Spanish conquistador, CreolesMestizosFrancisco PizarroHernando CortésSelect your answer, kidnapped Aztec emperor, Moctezuma who was later killed. Spain took control of the empire. SpainHernando CortésFrancisco PizarroCreolesSelect your answer, another conquistador, conquered the Inca Empire and claimed it for the Spain. By the 1540s, Spain claimed land extending from Kansas to the tip of South America. This huge region was divided into two colonies, New Spain and Peru. Gold, silver, and other goods from these lands made SpainPortugueseeastern CanadaMestizosSelect your answer the richest European country of its day. Life in a Spanish Colony Lima had Spanish-style churches and a university. People of Spanish descent who were born in the Americas were known as MestizosPortugueseSpanishCreolesSelect your answer. Children of marriages between Creoles and Indians were called SpanishMestizosPortugueseCreolesSelect your answer. Indians and enslaved Africans were at the lowest level of society. The Spanish used Indians to work the rich gold and silver mines of Mexico and Peru. Other Indians were forced to work on the haciendas owned by Spaniards or the Catholic Church. Francisco PizarroSpanishHernando CortésMissionariesSelect your answer made Indians become Catholic. Indians died from European diseases. Other Europeans in the Americas The Dutch had settlements in New Netherland in the early 1600s. New Netherland became New York when it was taken by the English. France established a colony in what is now PortugueseSpaineastern CanadaSelect your answer. Jamestown became the first permanent English colony in what is now Virgina. Within 100 years there were over 300,000 settlers in thirteen colonies that were part of the British Empire until 1776. The colonies revolted and became the independent country called the United States of America.