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20 Cards in this Set
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Columbus
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Sailed in 1492. Reached the Carribean (West Indies)
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Balboa
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Claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain
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Magellan
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-Found an all water route around the world
-Discovered the true size of the world |
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Cortes
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conquered the Aztecs
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Pizarro
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conquered the Incas
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Ponce de Leon
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-explored and claimed Puerto Rico and Florida
-searched for the Fountain of Youth |
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verrazano
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mapped and sailed from the Carolinas to Canada
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champlain
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-founded the 1st permanent settlement called New France
-built a trading post called Quebec |
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Hudson
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-ship was called the Half Moon
-discovered and ecplored what is now the Hudson River and Hudson Bay |
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Minuit
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-bought Manhattan Island from the Indians
-called the settlement New Amsterdam |
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conquistador
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Spanish conquerer
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Spanish settlements
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-Mission
-Pueblo -Presidio |
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Mission
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religious settlement run by Catholic priests
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Presidio
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fort where soldiers lived
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Pueblo
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town that was the center of farming and trade
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Spanish social class system
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peninsulare
creole mestizo native americans |
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peninsulare
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highest class. a Spanish person born in Spain to Spanish parents
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creole
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person born in America to Spanish parents
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mestizo
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person of Spanish and Indian background
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Native Americans
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Slaves
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