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chapter 3
vocab words
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History
8th Grade
09/30/2008

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Amerigo Vespucci
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a florentine merchant
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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treaty that divied newly discovered lands outside europe between portugal and spain
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conquistador
Definition
spanish adventurers
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Hernando Cortes
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spanish explorer who conquered the aztec empire
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Francisco Pizarro
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spanish explorer who conquered the inca empire
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missionary
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people who teach their religion to people of other faith
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mission
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a small settlement that inculdes a church
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Columbian Exchange
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the movement of living things between the eastern and western hemisheres
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Giovanni da Verrazano
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explorer for france who became th e frist european to visit present day NC
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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spanish sxplorer who claimed florida for spain while searching for th fountain of youth
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Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon
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spanish explorer who unsuccessfully led the only spanish attempt to colonize NC
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Hernando de Soto
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spanish explorer who traveled through much of the present day southeastern US
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Jean Ribaut
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a french navigator that crossed the atantic
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Pedro Menendez
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commanded a spanish warship
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Pedro de Coronas
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to friar at chesapeacke bay
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juan Pardo
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a captain that travled on foot to the Blue Ridge Mountains
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