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1.3-4 - Encounters (Spanish Conquest, New France, Columbian Exchange)
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Spanish and Portuguese conquers who led wars on Native Americans and created the colonies in the New World.
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Conquistadors
Spanish and Portuguese conquers who led wars on Native Americans and created the colonies in the New World.
Hernan Cortés
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec.
Montezuma
Last Aztec emperor who was defeated by Cortés.
Quetzalcotl
Mesoamerican feathered serpent god.
La Malinche
Native American woman who helped Cortés defeated the Aztec by providing advice and translation.
Francisco Pizzaro
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Inca empire.
Atahualpa
Inca emperor who was defeated by Pizarro and the Spanish.
Viceroyalty of Peru
Name for the Spanish colony in South America.
Hernando de Soto
Spanish conquistador who explored Florida and the southeastern United States. He failed to find gold or great civilizations to conquer.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Spanish conquistador who explored the southwestern United States.
New Spain
The northern Spanish colonies centered in Mexico and Central America.
Encomiendas
Spanish system in which conquistadors were rewarded with land and the right to enslave Native Americans.
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Spanish priest who wrote about the mistreatment of Native Americans.
Black Legend
A retelling of the Spanish colonial era that emphasized the mistreatment of Native Americans in order to portray the Spanish as evil.
Elmina Castle
Portuguese slave trading fortress on the Atlantic Coast of Africa in what is now Ghana.