| Term | Definition |
|---|
| hernando cortez | sailed from cuba to mexico with 500 soldiers |
| bartolome de las casas | tried to reform the encomienda system |
| encomienda | land grants that let settlers demanded labor or taxes from native americans |
| missions | religious settlements |
| peninsulares | colonist who were born in spain |
| plantations | large farms |
| ponce de leon | in 1513 sailed north from puerto rico to a place called la florida for its flowers. first Spaniard to go to the united states |
| francisco pizarro | in 1531 came to seek gold and copied cortez's to subdue the incas of peru |
| gold and silver mines | place were the native american and africans mines and sometimes the mines would claps killing everyone |
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