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22 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus
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Sailed for 33 days and had 3 small ships in 1492
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Who was italian but sailed under the spanis flag?
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Christopher Columbus
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Conquistadores
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Spanish soldiers that changed to explorers
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Friars
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Members of the Catholic religion and tried to convert indians to Christianity
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Missions
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Friars's religious outposts
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Herna`n Corte`s
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Sailed from Cuba and landed his army of 500 to east Mexico
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Tenochtitla`n
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Capital of the Aztec city
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Quetzalcoatl
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The Aztec God (they believed that it was Corte`s)
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Moctezuma
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Aztec emperor
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Alonso A`lvazer de Pineda
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Traveled the Texas coast
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Alvar Nu`n~ez Cabeza de Vaca
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Was an explorer that crashed in Galveston bay
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Viceroy
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The most prestige official in spain
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Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza
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Looked for 7 cities of gold
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Fray Marcos de Niza
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Lead the expedition that came up the the "Cibola" idea
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Cibola
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was a pueblo
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Francisco Va`zquez de Coronado
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young rich leader of the expedition with Fray Marcos and Viceroy Mendoza on the quest for Cibola. He also explored present day New Mexico
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Herna`n de Soto
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Found The Mississippi River
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Rene` Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle
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Was French and founded Louisiana
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Stockade
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Enclosure of posts made to form defense
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Tenochtitian is present day
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Mexico city
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Pa'n filo de Narva'ez
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leader of a failed expedition to conquer the area between Florida and Mexico
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Estebanico
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Accompanied Fray Marcos's party as a guide
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