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  1. 5. a Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain
  2. 10. who protested certain practices of the Catholic Church
  3. 11. a French navigator who made three voyages to Canada for France. He explored the St. Lawrence River.
  4. 12. a Spanish conquistador, he conquered Mexico and brought about the fall of the Aztec Empire.
  5. 13. Emperor of Mexico’s Aztec Empire, he welcomed explorer Cortés as a god but was taken prisoner by him. He was later killed, and the Aztec capital was destroyed during the following Aztec uprising.
  6. 14. a system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity
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  1. 1. a nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
  2. 2. a religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church
  3. 3. Spanish missionary and historian, he became the first ordained Catholic priest in the New World and advocated for the welfare and protection of Native Americans as well as preached against the slavery system.
  4. 4. boundary between Spanish and Portuguese territories in the New World
  5. 6. conquistador who sailed with Balboa on the discovery of the Pacific Ocean, he later pursued rumors of golden cities in the Andes Mountains of South America and conquered the Inca Empire.
  6. 7. a large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit
  7. 8. an official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony
  8. 9. a large Spanish fleet defeated by England in 1588