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18 Cards in this Set
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Moctezuma
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emperor of the Aztec empire
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Bartolomé de Las Casas
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Catholic priest who conducted a long campaign to protect Native Americans from mistreatment
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Hernando Cortés
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leader of the Spanish army that conquered the Aztec Empire
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Francisco Pizarro
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leader of the Spanish army that conquered the Inca Empire
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Samuel de Champlain
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explorer who founded the first permanent French settlement at Quebec
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Anne Hutchinson
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one of the founders of Rhode Island who was driven out of Massachusetts for religious reasons
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Olaudah Equiano
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African sold into slavery at a young age who wrote a narrative of his life
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Nathaniel Bacon
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leader of the rebellion against the governor of Virginia in the 1670s
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Vasco da Gama
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Portuguese explorer who sailed from Portugal to India around the southern tip of Africa
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New World
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name given to the Americas by Europeans who had not been aware of its existence
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representative assembly
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an elected group of people who made laws in each colony
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Pre-Columbian
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the time in the American past before the arrival of Columbus
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chattel slavery
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the owning of a person as a piece of property
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indentured servant
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a person who had to work a centain number of years to pe
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Eastern Hemisphere
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the half of the globe that includes Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia
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Commodity
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a product that can be traded, bought or sold
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militia
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a local group of armed citizens organized for the defense of a colony
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prehistory
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time in a people's past when there was no writing
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