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22 Cards in this Set
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Leader of Incas killed by the Spanish
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Atahuallpa
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Aztec leader when Europeans came to Mexico
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Motecuhzoma
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Explorer who claimed for Spain all of what is today the southeastern United States?
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Hernando de Sota
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People who came to the Americas to convert native peoples to Christianity
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Missionaries
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Peoples brought to the Americas against their will and forced to work for the colonists?
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Africans
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Explorer who looked for the Northwest Passage?
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Jacques Cartier
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Explorer who founded Quebec and Montreal?
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Samuel de Champlain
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What were to sources of wealth for the Netherlands?
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fur & trade
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What were to sources of wealth for France?
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furs and trade
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What were to sources of wealth for England?
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tobacco
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Who described the riches of China so that traders wanted to go to Asia?
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Marco Polo
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What changed in government took place that set the stage for European exploration?
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Lands once ruled by warring nobles had become countries ruled by strong monarchs
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Leader of the Spanish conquistadors who conquered the Aztecs
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Hernando Cortes
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Peoples who dies from hunger, overwork, and diseases after being enslaved by the Spanish
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Indian Peoples
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Spanish conquistador who ordered his soldiers to kill the Inca emperor
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Francisco Pizarro
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Spanish explorer who heard stories about the Seven Cities of Gold and set out to find them?
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
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Spanish Explorer who looked for the Fountain of Youth and named present day Florida?
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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European who founded a colony at Roanoke Island that soon disappeared?
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to fish and plant crops that would do well
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Tisquantum / Squanto
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In which two places did the Netherlands have colonies?
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Along Hudson River and New Amsterdam
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In which two places did France have colonies?
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Canada and New France
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In which two places did England have colonies?
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Virginia and Plymouth
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