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10 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus
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Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
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Los Indios
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Indians
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10/12/1492
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Date in which Columbus landed on the coast of America.
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Colony/Colonies
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A land that is controlled by another nation.
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Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
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A Spaniard who, in 1513, crossed the Isthmus of Panama and reached an ocean, naming it the South Sea, and claimed in for Spain. He explored the New World.
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Conquistadors
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Explorer-conquerors who sought wealth and land in the Americas for Spain.
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Tenochtitlán
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Tenochtitlán Capital city of the Aztec empire, on which modern-day Mexico City was built.
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Montezuma II
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The last Aztec emperor in Mexico who was overthrown and killed by Hernando Cortes (1466-1520).
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Malinche
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Daughter of a Mayan leader that helped Cortes as his main translater and kept an eye on Aztec spies.
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Hernando Cortés
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Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs and took their capital in 1521
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