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13 Cards in this Set
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What is the trade of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic between Europe and America? |
Columbian Exchange |
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Animals like horses, cows, pigs, and sheep that live near people are called |
domesticated |
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When people are treated as property it is called |
slavery |
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Spanish soldier/explorers, especially those who conquered the native peoples of Mexico and Peru were called |
conquistadors |
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Leader of one of the first Spanish expeditions to North America--he founded gold in Puerto Rico and searched for a "fountain of youth" in Florida...he also sailed with Christopher Columbus. |
Juan Ponce de Leon |
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A new territory established by a country in another land |
colony |
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An old European tale of fabulously rich streets and houses decorated with gold and jewels |
Seven Cities of Cibola |
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Aztec captial city |
Tenochtitlan |
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He conquered the Inca Empire (in what is now Peru in South America) with the help of smallpox |
Francisco Pizarro |
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The Inca ruler for whom the people paid three rooms of gold and silver treasure (and who the Spanish killed anyway) |
Atahualpa |
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A famed conquistador who set out from Mexico City to find the legendary golden cities |
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado |
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Walled forts where soldiers lived when rival European nations began to show an interest in the land the Spanish had claimed in North America |
presidios |
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This explorer arrived in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in Mexico and thought it was a beautiful city. He conquered the city and pulled down the stones to build Mexico City-the capital of New Spain. |
Hernan Cortes |
