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Chapter 3.1 Vocabulary
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History
8th Grade
09/30/2008

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Hernando Cortes
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Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec Empire.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Treaty that divided newly discovered lands outside of Europe between Portugal and Spain.
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Fransisco Pizarro
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Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca Empire.
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Columbian Exchange
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The movement of living things between the Eastern and the Western hemispheres.
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Giovanni da Verrazano
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Explorer for France who became the first European to visit present-day North Carolina.
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Amerigo Vespucci
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A Florentine merchant who proved Columbus wrong.
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conquistador
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Spanish adventures; conquerors
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mission
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small settlements that usually included a church, a fort, and homes for the missionaries and their coverts.
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missionary
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Catholic priests who teach thier religion to people of other faiths.
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