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10169583198IroquoisA league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca; after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora.0
10169583199Colombian ExchangeTrade of natural resources,technology, and disease between the NEW WORLD + OLD WORLD1
10169591069ReformationA 16th century religious movement marked ultimately by rejection or modification of some Roman Catholic doctrine and practice and establishment of the Protestant churches.2
10169591070ColumbusChristopher Columbus was an Italian-born explorer who set sail in August 1492.3
10169594463TenochtitlanThe capital city of the Aztec Empire from the middle of the 1300s to the early 1500s.4
10169595374MestizosA person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed5
10169595375Small Poxa pox virus that is transmitted from person to person. Smallpox is the only disease that has been completely wiped out throughout the world.6
10169597759PizarroSpanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541).7
10169597760Maizetechnical or chiefly British term for corn.8
10169599581Encomienda SystemA labor system instituted by the Spanish crown in the American colonies. In this system.9
10169601586CortesSpanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)10

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