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Columbian Exchange |
the transfer— beginning with Columbus’s first voyage—of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere. |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
the 1494 treaty in which Spain and Portugal agreed to divide the lands of the Western Hemisphere between them. |
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Christopher Columbus |
A Genoese sailor who planned to sail west to China instead of going across land. Instead, he landed in Latin America. He did this under Spain’s grants. |
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Migration |
is the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions of settling temporarily or permanently in the new location. The movement is often over long distances and from one country to another, but internal migration is also possible. |
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Hernando Cortez |
Spanish conquistador, found and took over the Aztecs. |
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Conquistador |
one of the Spaniards who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and conqueror in the 16th century |
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New Spain |
a colony comprising Spain’s possessions in the New World north of the Isthmus of Panama. It was established following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in by Cortez, it was made a viceroyalty in 1535. |
