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Review stack for 12-8 Social Studies Test on the Renaissance & Spanish Conquests

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Quetzacoatl   The "feathered serpent"; A god of earth and sky whom the Aztecs believed would return to their land and claim it as his own  
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Montezuma   Ruler of Aztec Kingdom when Cortes arrived  
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Cortes   A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire  
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Tenochtitlan   Capital city of the Aztecs; located on islands in the center of a lake  
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Ponce de Leon   Spanish explorer who discover Florida  
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El Dorado   A place where the Spaniards believed gold was as common as sand  
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Pizarro   Conquered the Inca Empire  
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Gutenberg   A German who invented a printing press  
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pagan   Until recently, anyone who was not a Christian, Jew or Muslim  
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Cibola   Mythical rich cities of gold  
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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo   A Spainard who sailed north from Mexico, along the Pacific Coast of what is now California  
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Prince Henry the Navigator   A Portuguese prince whose navigational school helped start the "Age of Exploration"  
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Tainos   Indigineous people whom Columbus encountered on the island of  
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Hernando de Soto   A Spainard who explored the southeastern part of what is now the United States and the Mississippi River  
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Christopher Columbus   An Italian who sailed for the king and queen of Spain  
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Sapa Inca   The leader of the Incas  
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Cuzco   Capital city of the Inca Empire  
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Renaissance   Period of time from 1300-1600 A.D. named for the French word meaning "rebirth"  
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Protestant   One who protests  
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conquistador   A Spanish conquerer  
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Martin Luther   A German who protested and tried to change the Catholic Church  
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Coronado   A Spanish explorer who traveled through the southwestern United States looking for Cibola  
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colony   A distant territory belonging to or under the control of a nation  
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Black Death   A plague that spread through Europe in the 1300's, killing many people  
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Reformation   A series of actions in the 1500's that led to the begining of Protestant churches  
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