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| 6238143616 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire | 0 | |
| 6238147251 | Motecuzoma II | The ruler of tenochtitlan from 1502-1520. He was the first of the american rulers to come in contact with europeans, and was killed during the spanish conquest of the americas. | 1 | |
| 6238147844 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire; he captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa and claimed the lands for Spain | 2 | |
| 6238148979 | Atahualpa | Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. | 3 | |
| 6238150013 | Cabeza de Vaca | Spanish nobleman and explorer of Florida in the New World; one of four survivors of the 1527 expedition and ended up in the hands of indigenous people | 4 | |
| 6238153698 | James Cook | English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779). | 5 | |
| 6238154607 | Mestizo | children of Spanish and native patronage | 6 | |
| 6238155432 | Mita | Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations. | 7 | |
| 6238156081 | Encomienda | system that gave the Spanish settlers the right to compel the indigenous peoples of the Americas to work in the mines and fields | 8 | |
| 6238157166 | Taino | a Caribbean tribe who were the first indigenous peoples from the Americas to come in contact with Christopher Columbus | 9 | |
| 6238158525 | Conquitadores | Spanish adventurers like Cotes and Pizarro who conquered Central and South America in the sixteenth century | 10 | |
| 6238159694 | Treaty of Tordesillas | divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile; divided the world between an imaginary lime 370 leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands | 11 | |
| 6238160407 | Tupac Amaru rebellion | an uprising of native and mestizo peasants against the Bourbon reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru | 12 | |
| 6238161646 | Engenho | Brazilian sugar mill | 13 | |
| 6238162879 | Indentured labor Economic | labor source for plantations; wealthy planters would pay the European poor to sell a portion of their working lives, usually seven years, in exchange for passge | 14 | |
| 6238162880 | Aboriginal Australians | indigenous people to Australia; nomadic foragers that had fleeting encounters with the Europeans | 15 |
