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20 Cards in this Set
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conquistadors
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Spainish for conqueror, the men who led the expeditions to conquer the Americas.
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presidio
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fort built by the Spanish in the Americas.
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hidalgos
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low ranking nobles who came to the Americas as conquistadors.
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encomienda system
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system of rewarding conqusitadors tracts of land, including the right to vote and exact labor from Native Americans.
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haciendas
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a huge ranch
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vaqueros
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men who hearded the cattle on the haciendas.
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Hernan Cortes
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In 1519 the Spanish government asked to lead an expedition to the Yucatán Peninsula to find new people who could be forced to work on the farms and mines of Cuba. in 1521 Cortés launched another attack and this time defeated the Aztec.
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Montezuma
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Aztec leader, failed to stop the Spanish advance,
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New Spain
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Spanish colony, capital Mexico
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Fransisco Pizarro
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explored Peru and conquered the Inca empire.
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Hernando de Soto
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led a large expedition and explored the area north of Florida.
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Fernando Vasquez de Coronado
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led an expedition in search of the rumored Seven Golden Cities of Cibola. His explorations led him throughout the southwestern area of what is today the United States.
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New Mexico
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territory north of New Spain.
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Encomienda system
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After Cortés defeated the Aztec empire, he rewarded his men by granting them control over some part of the empire.
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peninsulares
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The highest level of society consisted of the those born in Spain.
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crillos
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those born in the colonies of Spanish parents.
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mestizos
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those born of Spanish and Native American parentage.
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lowest level of society
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included Native Americans, Africans, and people of mixed Spanish and African or African and Native American ancestry.
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viceroy
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The Spanish king divided the empire in America into regions called viceroyalties. A ______ ruled each region as a representative of the king.
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silver
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Although the Spanish did not find vast deposits of gold in the Americas, they did discover huge deposits of ______. Mining camps emerged all across northern Mexico.
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