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6 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus |
1450-1506; Born in Genoa, Italy; Funded by Spain; sailed 149; Sought a route to the “East Indies” (e.g., India and Southeast Asia) but ended up in Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic / Haiti) |
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Herman Cortez |
1485-1547 |
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The Aztecs Before Cortés |
Tenochtitlán: The Impossible City |
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Quetzalcoatl |
One of the main Mesoamerican deities, Quetzalcoatl was commonly represented as a feathered serpent. He was patron of goldsmiths as well as priests, and was said to be the inventor of the calendar and of books. Moctezuma mistook Cortez as Quetzalcoatl. |
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Bartolomé de las Casas |
1484-1566. A Dominican Friar, later named “Protector of the Indians.” |
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Encomienda |
a system by which Spanish masters were to protect and evangelize a specified number of natives in exchange for their labor–tantamount to slavery. |
