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Box Quiz 15
Question | Answer |
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Creoles | American born descendants of Spanish settlers |
Pampas | Fertile region in Paraguay and Argentina |
Amazon River | 2nd longest river in the world, flows through much of Brazil |
Andes | Mountain range in South America which extends from the northern region to the southern tip |
Francisco Pizarro | Conquered the Incas in 1535 |
Mestizo | People of mixed European and Native American ancestry |
Aztec | This civilization built their empire on the Central Plateau, around the city of Tenochtitlan (modern day Mexico City) |
Conquistadors | Spanish warriors who took over much of Latin America |
Hernando Cortes | Conquered the Aztecs in 1521 |
Montezuma II | Aztec emperor who didn’t want to fight Cortes because he believed Cortez was the god king Quetzalcoatl returning as promised |