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14 Cards in this Set
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Motecuhzoma
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Aztec leader when Europeans came to9 Mexico
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Hernando Cortes
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leader of the Spanish conquistadors who conquered teh Aztecs
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Francisoco Pizarro
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Spanish conquisador who ordered his soldiers to kill the Inca emperor
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Atahuallpa
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leader of Incas killed by the Spanish
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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Spanish explorer who looked for the Fountain of Youth and named present day Florida
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
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Spanish explorer who heard stories about the Seven Cities of Gold and set out to find them
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Hernando de Soto
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explorer who claimed for Spain all of what is today the southeastern United States
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missionaries
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people who came to the Americas to convert native peoples to Christianity
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Africans
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people brought to the Americas against their will and forced to work for the colonists
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Jacques Cartier
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explorer who looked for the Northwest Passage
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Samuel de Champlain
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explorer who founded Quebec and Montreal
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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European who founded a colony at Roanoke Island that soon disappeared
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Indian Peoples
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peoples who died from hunger, overwork, and deseases after being enslaved by the Spanish
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Tisquantum
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Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to fish and plant crops that would do well
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