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Conquistadores   Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain  
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Hernan Cortes   Spanish conquistadores, sent to present day Mexico to find Moctezuma II and take over the Aztec empire and  
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Malintzin   American Indian woman who interpreted and advised the Spaniards about the Aztecs  
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Francisco Pizzaro   Spanish conquistador who went to Peru and conquered the Inca empire  
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Juan Ponce De Leon   Spanish conquistador who explored Florida and looked for the Fountain of Youth, his settlement failed  
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Hernand de Soto   Spanish conquistador who searched for gold Florida, was first European to cross the Mississippi River  
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado   Spanish Conquistador who explored New Mexico searching for cities of gold  
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Pueblos   Spanish towns in Americas  
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Missions   settlements established by priests in Spanish America to convert local Indians to Catholicism  
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Presidios   Spanish military bases located in the Americas  
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Encomienda System   System in Spanish America that gave settlers the night to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills  
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Plantation   Large farms that usually specialize in growing one kind of crop  
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Borderlands   Region of Spanish America where few Europeans lived; included northern Mexico, FL, and parts of AZ, CA, NM, and TX  
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Pope   the Pueblo medicine man who lead the group that drove the Spanish out of New Mexico  
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Sea Dogs   English Sailors encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I to raid Spanish treasure ships in the late 1500s  
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Inflation   Increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value or money  
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Martin Luther   former Catholic priest in Germany, protested the policies of the Catholic Church, started the Protestant Reformation in 1517  
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Protestant Reformation   religious movement started by Martin Luther that began as an effort to reform the church, spread through Germany and then to other parts of Europe, followers were called Protestants because they protested the Catholic Church’s practices  
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King Henry VIII   King of England, founded the Church of England, or Anglican church making himself the head of it  
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Queen Elizabeth I   Queen of England, Daughter of Henry VIII, Protestant who wanted peace between Protestants and Catholics  
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Spanish Armada   in response to English attacks King Philip built up a Spanish fleet of 130 ships, and 27,000 sailors and soldiers, and sent them to England to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and the Anglican Church  
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Charter   official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony  
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Walter Raleigh   half brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, paid for an expedition to present-day VA and NC and named it all VA, he sent a group to found the colony of Roanoke Island  
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