Chapter 3 - Section 2
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Created by:
breinlis on December 16, 2010
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the american nation - social studies
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Spanish | English |
|---|---|
 conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americas |
| pueblo | Spanish towns in New Spain |
| presidio | a Spanish fort in New Spain |
| mission | a religious settlement in New Spain |
| peninsulare | born in Spain, hold highest jobs in government and church |
| creole | person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents |
| mestizo | a person of mixed spanish and native american ancestry |
| encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it |
| plantation | Large farms that produced only one crop to be sold; Indians and Africans were slaves |
| Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) |
| Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541) |
| Hernando de Soto | Spanish explorer who discovered and claimed the Mississippi River for Spain |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | Spanish Explorer who discovered and named Florida while searching for the "Fountian of Youth" |
| Moctezuma | Aztec emperor defeated and killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes. |
| Atahualpa | Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish |
| Cabeza da Vaca | Spanish explorer who explored Texas |
| Coronado | the explorer who traveled across America's southwest in search of the fabled "seven cities of gold" |
| viceroy | a governor or ruler exercising authority on behalf of a sovereign in a province or colony; rulers in New Spain |
| Laws of the Indies | Code of laws that stated how the colonies should be organized and ruled |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | Spaniard who fought for Native American rights. |
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