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- 4. Spanish conquistador reaching Tenochtitlan the Aztec capital with generous offerings from the Aztecs but would later defeat the Aztecs led by Moctezuma (LAST NAME)
- 6. System in which the Spanish brought slaves from West Africa to North America as the Natives died off from disease and cruel treatment. African slaves NOT attached to the land
- 7. Civilized Mexico before Spanish known for building huge unique structures and roads. Also invented gun, chocolate, and popcorn
- 10. Social class system that favored and rewarded the Spanish explorers in the Americas with land and Natives attached to the land
- 11. Henry the Navigator was the first to do what?
- 12. Civilization in Southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize invented 365 day calendar, ZERO, Astrology, Math, and written language CODEX
- 13. French explorer who explored the St.Lawrence River North America and claimed it for France (LAST NAME)
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- 1. Spanish Conquerors of Mexico and Peru 16th century
- 2. Italian explorer who led the English 1497 to discover North America (LAST NAME)
- 3. Treaty creating a line splitting the New World from the Old World into two regions between Spain and Portugal
- 5. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in Peru then founded Lima the capital (LAST NAME)
- 8. South American Indian people living in Central Andes before Spanish conquest. Invented first clock by using sun shadows.
- 9. Spanish missionary disgusted with poor treatment of Natives and the encomienda system. "Father of Anti-Imperialism" (LAST NAME)
- 14. Most powerful Native American Confederation (Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Onienda) in Ohio River which remained independent from Britain and France.