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Chapter16 Section1
Conquest in the Americas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conquistador- | Conquerors |
| Immunity- | Resistance |
| Alliance- | formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense |
| Civil War- | war fought between two groups of people in the same nation |
| Hernan Cortes- | Landed on the coast of Mexico in 1519 with about 600 men, 16 horses, and a few cannons |
| Moctezuma- | sent gifts of gold and siler, but urged the strangers not to continue to Tenochtitlan |
| Francisco Pizarro- | he arrived in Peru in 1532, just after the Incan ruler Atahualpa won the throne from his brother in a bloody civil war. |