Wyatt - History Chapter 4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Motecuhzoma | was the Aztec leader when Europeans came to Mexico |
| Hernando Cortes | was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs |
| Francisco Pizarro | was the Spanish conquistador who ordered his soldiers to kill the Inca emperor |
| Atahuallpa | was the leader of the Incas killed by the Spanish |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | was the Spanish explorer who looked for the fountain of youth and named present day Florida |
| Francisco Vasquez de Coronado | was the Spanish explorer who heard stories about the Seven Cities of Gold and set out to find them |
| Hernando de Soto | was the explorer who claimed for Spain all of what is today the southeastern United States and battled with Chief Tuscaloosa. |
| Missionaries | were people who came to the Americas to convert native people to Christianity |
| Africans | were people who came to America against their will and forced to work for the colonists |
| Jacques Cartier | was an explorer who looked for the Northwest Passage |
| Samuel de Champlain | was the explorer who founded Quebec and Montreal |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | was the European who founded the colony of Roanoke Island that soon disappeared |
| Native Americans | died from hunger, overwork, and diseases after being enslaved by the Spanish |
| Squanto | was an Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to fish and plant crops that would do well |
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