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| 51094482 | Hernan Cortez | a Spanish conquistador who landed on the east coast of what we now know as Mexico in 1519; he was looking for gold and glory, became friends with the Aztec emperor and later killed him and many Aztec nobels | 0 | |
| 51094483 | Motecuzoma II | Second-to-last emperor of the Aztec empire; seized by Spanish forces and killed in 1520 skirmish between the Aztecs and Spanish; his nephew and son-in-law Cuauhtémoc became leader afterward | 1 | |
| 51094484 | Fransisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533. (p. 438) | 2 | |
| 51094485 | Atahualpa | Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438) | 3 | |
| 51094486 | Cabeza de vaca | adventurer who was a nobleman who joined an expedition of some 300 explorers who went from Hispaniola to investigate Florida in 1527 | 4 | |
| 51094487 | James cook | English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) | 5 | |
| 51094488 | Mestizo | individuals of Spanish and native percentage | 6 | |
| 51094489 | Encomienda | Indians were required to work a certain number of days for a land owner, but had their own land to work as well. | 7 | |
| 51094490 | Taino | native americans who lived where columbus first landed | 8 | |
| 51094491 | Engenho | represents a complex of land, labor, buildings, animals, capital, and technical skills | 9 | |
| 51094492 | Indentured servants | People who could not afford passage to the colonies could become indentured servants. Another person would pay their passage, and in exchange, the indentured servant would serve that person for a set length of time (usually seven years) and then would be free. | 10 | |
| 51094493 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Set the Line of Demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas. | 11 | |
| 51094494 | Conquista Dores | A conqueror, especially one of the 16th-century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru. | 12 | |
| 51094495 | Aboriginal Australians | had many distinct foraging and fishing societies; did not stay in one spot for very long | 13 | |
| 51094496 | Repartimiento System | required adult male Native Americans to devote a set number of days of labor anually to Spanish economic enterprises. PROBLEM- abused workers due to sense of urgency and exploitation | 14 |
