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7 Cards in this Set
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Francisco Pizzaro
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Kidnapped Atahuapla and defeated Incas
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Peninsulares
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Peninsulares were Spanish settlers in the Americas (most were men).
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Mestizo
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Mestizos were Spanish American offspring.
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Encomienda system
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The encomienda was a system where the Spanish forced the Natives to work for them such as farm and mine.
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Hernando Cortez
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Landed in Mexico and was told that there was gold in America. Spanish went there, and colonized there
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Emperor Montezuma II
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Montezuma was the emperor of the Aztec Empire and controlled the empire from the capital Tenochtitlan.
Aztecs got angry at the Spanish greed and lost a war over it (small pox also killed thousands) |
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Smallpox
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smallpox and the measles killed hundreds of thousands of Natives
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