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15 Cards in this Set
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chistopher columbus
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he was a dead reckoning navigator the man who founded the united states
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Gaucanagaria
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this man showered columbus with gold nuggets and ornaments
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encomienda
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colunbus granted the colonist control over idian labor
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Bartolome de las casas
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had lived for some years as an ancomendero in cuba
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treaty of tordesillas
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moved the earlier line f demarcation farther west
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vasco nunez de balboa
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explored the area now known as panama
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Ferdinand Magellan
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was portuguese mariner who believed that by sailing west he could find a water passageway through around the Americas
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circumnavigate
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to sail completely around the world
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alvar nunes cabeza de vaca
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swam ashore with some 80 other survivors
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conquistadores
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soon followed in the foot steps of the early explores
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hernan cortes
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one of the most able and adventurous of the conquistadores
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moctezuma II
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a very powerful aztec ruler
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Fransisco Pizzaro
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a spanish soldier and treasure hunter
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pedro Menendez de Ailes
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at last succeeded in securing a permanent settlemant in florida
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juan de onate
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established the first spanish settelment in new mexico in 1598
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