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Chichen Itza
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from the movie the ruins, mayan built
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St. Augstine, of hippo
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auto biography confessions
Augustine, a Latin church father, is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity.
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Joan of Arc
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Shes kind of a big deal in france
A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed Divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War which
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Pedro Alvares Cabral
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King Manuel, dispatched 13 ships under his command. to set up trading post in india
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Bartolomeu Dias
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Rounded the cape of good hope (africa) Turned around and came back
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Vasco Da Gama
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one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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He was responsible for the early development of European exploration and maritime trade with other continents
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caravel
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highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean
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Bartolomé de las Casas
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Las Casas is often seen as one of the first advoicates for universal Human Rights.
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Hernando Cortez
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was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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as a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortés.
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bishop Diego de Landa
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was a Spanish Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He left future generations with a mixed legacy in his writings, which contain much valuable information on pre-Columbian Maya civilization, and his actions which destroyed much of that civilization's history, literature, and traditions. He is a major figure in the so-called "Black Legend".
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Black Legend
From Wikipedia, the free encyclo
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n reference to the examples of anti-Spanish propaganda and Hispanophobia in the Early Modern period. I
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Quetzalcoatl
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Aztecs Quetzalcoatl was, as his name indicates, a feathered serpent, a flying reptile (much like a dragon), who was a boundary maker (and transgressor) between earth and sky.
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Quetzalcoatl
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To The Aztecs Quetzalcoatl was, as his name indicates, a feathered serpent, a flying reptile (much like a dragon), who was a boundary maker (and transgressor) between earth and sky.
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Huitzilopochtli
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Huitzilopochtli was a tribal god and a legendary wizard of the Aztecs.
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Tenochtitlan
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located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico.
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Pulque
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milk-colored, somewhat viscous alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey plant, and is a traditional native beverage of Mexico.
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Moctezuma
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During his reign the Aztec Empire was consolidated, major expansion was undertaken and Tenochtitlan started becoming the dominant partner of the Aztec Triple Alliance
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Malinche
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was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, acting as interpreter, advisor, lover and intermediary for Hernán Cortés.
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Requerimiento
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was a written declaration of sovereignty and war, read by Spanish military forces to assert their sovereignty (a dominating control ) over the Americas.
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Encomienda
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is a labor system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the colonization of the Americas and the Philippines.
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Viracocha
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Viracocha is the great creator god in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology in the Andes region of South America.
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Quipu
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were recording devices used in the Inca Empire and its predecessor societies in the Andean region. A quipu usually consisted of colored spun and plied thread or strings from llama or alpaca hair
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Francisco Pizarro
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was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire, and founder of Lima, the modern-day capital of the Republic of Peru
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tiahuanaco
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is an important Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia, South America.
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Manco Cápac
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) was the legendary first Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco and a figure of Inca mythology
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Atahualpa
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, was the last Sapa Inca or sovereign emperor of the Tahuantinsuyu, or the Inca Empire.
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Huáscar
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was Sapa Inca of the Inca empire from 1527 to 1532 AD, succeeding his father Huayna Capac and brother Ninan Cuyochi, both of whom died of smallpox while campaigning near Quito.
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Pedro de Valdivia
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was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile.
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Kamikaze
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were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II,
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Admiral Yi)
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was a Korean naval commander noted for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Japanese invasions of Korea
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Christopher Columbus
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as a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy,[1][2][3][4] whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere
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town charter
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) is a legal document establishing a municipality such as a city or town. The concept developed in Europe during the middle ages.
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513,
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Hideyoshi
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was a daimyo in the Sengoku period who unified the political factions of Japan.
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Black Death
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was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. It is widely thought to have been an outbreak of bubonic plague caused by the
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Leif Ericson
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was a Norse[2] explorer who is regarded as the first European to land in North America (excluding Greenland), nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
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Reconquista
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as a period of about 700 years (539 years in Portugal) in the Middle Ages during which several Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula succeeded in retaking (and repopulating) the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslim Al-Andalus Province.
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Prester John
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ere popular in Europe from the 12th through the 17th centuries, and told of a Christian patriarch and king said to rule over a Christian nation lost amidst the Muslims and pagans in the Orient.
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Yamato
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was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan. Later the term was used as the name of the province and also as an ancient name of Japan. The term was semantically extended to mean “Japan” or “Japanese” in general, and carries many of the same connotations as American does for the United States.
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Shōen
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was a field or manor in Japan. The Japanese term comes from the Tang dynasty Chinese term zhuangyuan.
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Kublai Khan
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was the fifth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1294 and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty in East Asia.
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Inquisition
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The term Inquisition can apply to any one of several institutions which fought against heretics (or other offenders against canon law) within the justice-system of the Roman Catholic Church

the trial of an individual accused of heresy.
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Dominican Order
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after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III (1216–27) on 22 December 1216 in France. Membership in the Order includes friars[1], nuns, congregations of active sisters, and lay persons affiliated with the order
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Franciscan
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Most Franciscans are members of Roman Catholic religious orders founded by Saint Francis of Assisi.
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Wat Tyler
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was the leader of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
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Feudalism
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Feudalism was a set of political and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Although derived from the Latin word feodum (fief),[1] then in use, the term feudalism and the system it describes were not conceived of as a formal political system by the people living in the Medieval Period
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Hundred Years' War
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as a series of separate wars lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne, which was vacant with the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings. The two primary contenders were the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou
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Spice Islands
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Most of the islands are mountainous, some with active volcanoes, and enjoy a wet climate. The vegetation of the small and narrow islands, encompassed by the sea, is very luxuriant; including rainforests, sago, rice and the famous spices - nutmeg, cloves and mace, among others.
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Spice Islands
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Most of the islands are mountainous, some with active volcanoes, and enjoy a wet climate. The vegetation of the small and narrow islands, encompassed by the sea, is very luxuriant; including rainforests, sago, rice and the famous spices - nutmeg, cloves and mace, among others.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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was a Portuguese explorer. He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, but later obtained Spanish nationality in order to serve King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands"
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Osman
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as the leader of the Ottoman Turks, and the founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the Ottoman Empire. The Empire, named after him, would prevail as a world empire [2] for over six centuries.
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Shōtoku
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The era name of Shōtoku (meaning "Righteous Virtue") was created to mark the enthronement of Emperor Nakamikado.
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Shogun
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is a military rank and historical title for (in most cases) hereditary military dictator of Japan.[1] The modern rank is equivalent to a Generalissimo
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Shinto
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is the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people. It is a set of practices, to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past.
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Reconquista
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a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest". was a period of about 700 years (539 years in Portugal) in the Middle Ages during which several Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula succeeded in retaking (and repopulating) the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslim Al-Andalus Province
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Pope Urban II
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He is most known for starting the First Crusade (1095–1099) and setting up the modern day Roman Curia, in the manner of a royal court, to help run the Church.
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Malazgirt
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The lands around Manzikert belonged to the Manavazyans, an Armenian nakharar family which claimed descent from Manaz, until 333 A.D., when King Khosrov III Arshakuni of Armenia ordered that all members of the family be put to the sword
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Acre
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turkish army last strong hold
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Frederick I Barbarossa
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He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March, crowned King of Italy in Pavia in 1155, and finally crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV, on 18 June 1155, and two years later in 1157 the term "sacrum" (i.e. "holy") first appeared in a document in connection with his Empire.
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Richard I
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By age 16, Richard was commanding his own army, putting down rebellions in Poitou against his father, King Henry II.[1] Richard was a central Christian commander during the Third Crusade, effectively leading the campaign after the departure of Philip Augustus and scoring considerable victories against his Muslim counterpart, Saladin, but was unable to reconquer Jerusalem.[3]

Richard the Lionheart,
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Saladin
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He led Islamic opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant. At the height of his power, he ruled over Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Hejaz, and Yemen
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William Adams
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as an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Englishman ever to reach that country. He was the inspiration for the character of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's bestselling novel Shōgun.
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Oda Nobunaga
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was the initiator of the unification of Japan under the rule of the Shogun in the late Sixteenth Century, a rule that ended only with the opening of Japan to the Western world in 1868.
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Tokugawa
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they nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji) by the Nitta clan.
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Charlemagne
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King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum) from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800. This temporarily made him a rival of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople.
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Machu Picchu
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is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level.[1][2] It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cusco and through which the Urubamba River flows.
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Cuitláhuac
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Cuitlahuac was the eleventh son of the ruler Axayacatl and a younger brother of Moctezuma II, the previous ruler of Tenochtitlan.[4] His mother's father, also called Cuitlahuac, had been ruler of Itztapalapan,[5] and the younger Cuitlahuac also ruled there initially.
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Vinland
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Vinland was the name given to an area of North America by the Norsemen, about the year 1000 CE.

There is a consensus among scholars that the Vikings reached North America approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of Christopher Columbus.[1] In 1960
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