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32 Cards in this Set
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Because of inflation in Spain and the Spanish Armada's defeat
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Spain's golden age gradually came to an end
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Ponce de Leon came to the Americas to find
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gold and the fountain of youth
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which type of Spanish settlements were towns that served as trading posts and centers of local governments
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pueblos
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the most important spanish settlement in new mexico and one of the most important in the borderlands was
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Santa Fe
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The printing press
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helped spread the Protestant Reformation
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Port Royal and Quebec were founded by
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Champlain, who also explored parts of what are now New York and Vermont
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Of the European countries that sought wealth in the Americas the one that most profited was
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Spain
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After Coronado captured Cibola, he discovere that it contained
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nothing but adobe buildings and bushels of corn
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Reforms in the encomienda system were triggered by efforts of
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Bartolome de Las Casas
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Malintzin, an American Indian woman served as guide and interpreter for
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Cortes
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Because american indian resistance and high death rates from disease made the encomienda system less successful in Florida and Caribbean, the Spanish...
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brought enslaved Africans to work in New Spain
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The Protestant Reformation began in
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Germany
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The Anglican church was founded by
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King Henry VIII
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Who was the ruler of the Aztec Empire when Cortes captured it?
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Moctezuma
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The Roanoke Colony was resttled in 1587 by
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John White
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In remote frontier areas, the Spanish built military bases called
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presidios
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THe Spanish claim to the Pacific coast of North America was established by
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Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo
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Texas' main Spanish settlement until 1700s was
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the mission of El Paso
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THe Roanoke colony was
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discovered mysteriously deserted in 1590
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Which Spanish explorer did the Aztecs believe was Quetzalcoatl?
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Cortes
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The Spanish Armada was
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weakened by a series of delays and poor leadership, and destroyed in a storm
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which river made exploration of the southern parts of America possible
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Mississippi
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invasion fleet assembled by King Philip II to invade England, overthrow QUeen Elizabeth I and return England to the Roman Catholic church
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Spanish Armada
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"The King's Road" a road network that connected the communities of New Spain
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El Camino Real
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reformers who protested the catholc church's practices
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Protestants
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Spanish soldiers and exporers who led military expeditions in the americas
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conquistadores
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a group of royal officials who oversaw all government in Spanish America
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Council of the Indies
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a region along the edge of New Spain including northern Mexico Florida and parts of present-day California Arizona, New Mexico and Texas
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borderlands
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a group of English sailors who raided Spanish treasure ships for Queen Elizabeth I
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sea dogs
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large farms that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop
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plantation
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document granting permission to establish a colony
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charter
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an increase in the amount of money in circulation and in the price of foods
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inflation
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