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- The Spanish intended to transform the islands of the Caribbean into ____or lands that are controlled another nation.
- colonies
- explorer that claimed that the newly discovered land was not part of Asia but a "new" world. Named the continent america
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Spanish exoplorer who marched through Panama to become the 1st European to gaze upon what?
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Vasco Nunez Balboa
Pacific Ocean - Magellan and his crew were the first to do what?
- Circle the globe
- who were the 1st european settlers in the Americas?
- the Spanish
- what are conquistadors?
- a group of Spanish Adventurers who came to America in search of gold and wealth.
- Which explorer and his 600 men reached Tenochtitlan
- Hernando Cortes
- What Aztec emporer was convinced that Cortes was an armor-clad god?
- Montezuma II
- Who conquered the Aztecs?
- Cortes and his men
- How did the Spanish have an advantage over the Aztecs?
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-weaponry (Aztec arrows vs. Spanish muskets/cannons)
-made allies w/tribes malinche) convinced natives to fight on his side
-Disease (measles, mumps, smallpox)
-horses - Conquistador that conquered the INCA empire?
- Francisco Pizarro
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Inca ruler that was kidnapped by the Spaniards?
offered to fill a room once w/gold and twice w/silver for his release - Atahualpa
- The Inca Capital that Pizarro captured
- Cuzco
- The Spanish were not responsible for ending this great Empire
- Mayans
- Born on Iberian Peninsula
- Peninsulares
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Marriage between Spanish settlers and native women.
-mixed population - Mestizo
- A system where Spanish forced N.A. to labor. Natives farmed, ranched, or mined for Spanish landlords
- encomienda
- Who uilt giant sugar plantations
- Portuguese
- Spanish explorer: wandered through Florida and claimed it for Spain
- Juan Ponce de Leon
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Who led settlers to a tributary on the upper Rio Grande?
*governor of Spain's northern holdings-New Mexico- - Pedro de Peralta
- Santa Fe Means?
- Holy Faith
- who was the Pueblo ruler that led a revolt against the Spanish? *ran them out of New Mexico*
- Pope
- What did Ferdinand Magellans voyage show?
- Ships could reach Asia by the Pacific Ocean
- Discovered the New York Harbor
- Giovanni da Verrazzano
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Reached a gulf off the eastern coast of Canada that led to a broad river.
*who was it and what was the river called?* -
Jacques Cartier
St. Lawrence - Cartier Named the island Mont Royal which became known as
- Montreal
- Samuel de Champlain: claimed what region
- Quebec-New France
- Who claimewd the entire river valley for France and named it Louisiana in honor of the French King - Louis XIV?
- Sieur de La Salle
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France's main economic activity?
Made hats out of ____ -
Fur Trade
beaver skin - This group founded Plymouth, in Massachusettes. Sought religious freedom
- Pilgrims