chapter 20
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- mestizo
- mixed spanish and native american population
- carribean
- where columbus first landed
- peninsulares
- spanish settlers to the americas
- spain
- who did he claim it for
- first europeans to colonize the americas
- spanish
- coronado
- explored arizona, new mexico, texas, oklahoma, kansas
- brazil
- area in south america that was not spanish
- megellan
- first to navigate the world
- encomiendo
- natives farmed, ranched, or mined for spanish landlords
- spain
- country columbus sailed for
- juan ponce de leon
- looked for fountain of youth
- thought he was a god
- what the aztecs thought of cortes
- montezuma II
- aztec leader
- spain
- most powerful country in 16th century
- cortes
- first spaniard to reach mexico
- atahualpa
- incan ruler
- conquistadors
- spanish conquerors
- spanish
- strangled the incan king
- genoa
- where columbus was from
- pedro alvares cabral
- reached brazil in 1500
- sugar
- what they produced in brazil
- amerigo vespucci
- realized the new land was not asia/map-makers
- francisco pizarro
- conquered the incas in peru
- august 3, 1492
- year columbus left
- tenotchtilan
- aztec capital
- vasco nunez de balboa
- first european to reach the pacific ocean
- phillipines
- megellan was killed in war
- san salvador
- what columbus named the carribean
- portugal
- pedro alvares was from this country
- new spain
- mexico and parts of guatemala
- colony
- lands that are controlled by another nation