Encounters in the Americass
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- Indian who taught the Pilgrams how to fish and plant crops that would do well
- Tisquantum
- explorer who claimed for Spain all of what is today the southeastern United States
- Hernando de Soto
- peoples who died from hunger, overwork, and diseases after being enslaved by the Spanish
- Indian peoples
- Spanish conquistador who ordered his soldiers to kill the Inca emperor
- Francisco Pizarro
- leader of Incas killed by the Spanish
- Atahuallpa
- people who came to the Americas to convert native peoples to Christianity
- missionaries
- European who founded a colony at Roanoke Island that soon disappeared
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Aztec leader when Europeans came to Mexico
- Motecuhzoma
- explorer who founded Quebec and Montreal
- Samuel de Champlain
- explorer who looked for the Northwest Passage
- Jacques Cartier
- peoples brought to the Americas against their will and forced to work for the colonists.
- Africans
- leader of the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
- Hernando Cortes
- Spanish explorer who heard stories about the Seven Cities of Gold and set out to find them
- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
- Spanish explorer who looked for the Fountain of Youth and named present-day Florida
- Juan Ponce de Leon