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| 305475400 | Aztecs | Native American Empire who lived in Mexico. Their capital was Tenochtitlan. They worshipped everything around them especially the sun. Cortes conquered them in 1521. | |
| 305475401 | Pueblo Indians | lived in the Southwestern United States. They built extensive irrigation systems to water their primary crop, which was corn. Their houses were multi-storied buildings made of adobe. | |
| 305490047 | Joint Stock Companies | developed to gather the savings from the middle class to support finance colonies. Ex. London Company and Plymouth Company. | |
| 305490048 | Renaissance | Cultural and political movement in western Europe; began in Italy c. 1400; rested on urban vitality and expanding commerce; featured a literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the Middle Ages. | |
| 305490049 | Canadian Shield | geological shape of North America; 10 million years ago; held the northeast corner of North America in place; the first part of North America to come above sea level. | |
| 305490050 | Mound Builders | Tribes of North America who built extensive mounds of dirt, especially in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys. | |
| 305490051 | Spanish Armada | "Invincible" group of ships sent by King Philip II of Spain to invade England in 1588; Armada was defeated by smaller, more maneuverable English "sea dogs" in the Channel; marked the beginning of English naval dominance and fall of Spanish dominance. | |
| 305490052 | Black Legend | The idea developed during North American colonial times that the Spanish utterly destroyed the Indians through slavery and disease while the English did not. It is a false assertion that the Spanish were more evil towards the Native Americans than the English were. | |
| 305490053 | Montezuma | Aztec chieftan; encountered Cortes and the Spanish and saw that they rode horses; he assumed that the Soanush were gods. He welcomed them hospitably, but the explorers soon turned on the natives and ruled them for three centuries. | |
| 305490054 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China | |
| 305490055 | Herman Cortes | He was a Spanish explorer who conquered the Native American civilization of the Aztecs in 1519 in what is now Mexico. | |
| 305490056 | Francisco Coronado | A Spanish soldier and commander; in 1540, he led an expedition north from Mexico into Arizona; he was searching for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold, but only found Adobe pueblos. | |
| 305490057 | Treaty of Tordesillas | In 1494 Spain and Portugal were disputing the lands of the new world, so the Spanish went to the Pope, and he divided the land of South America for them. Spain got the vast majority, the west, and Portugal got the east. | |
| 305490058 | Mestizos | race of people created when the Spanish intermarried with the surviving Indians in Mexico. | |
| 305490059 | Marco Polo | Italian explorer; spent many years in China or near it; his return to Europe in 1295 sparked a European interest in finding a quicker route to Asia. | |
| 305490060 | Franciso Pizarro | New World conqueror; Spanish conqueror who crushed the Inca civilization in Peru; took gold, silver and enslaved the Incas in 1532. | |
| 305490061 | Juan Ponce de Leon | Spanish Explorer; in 1513 and in 1521, he explored Florida, thinking it was an island. Looking for gold and the "fountain of youth", he failed in his search for the fountain of youth but established Florida as territory for the Spanish, before being killed by a Native American arrow. | |
| 305490062 | Hernando de Soto | Spanish Conquistador; explored in 1540's from Florida west to the Mississippi with six hundred men in search of gold; discovered the Mississippi, a vital North American river. |
