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Fransisco Pizarro

Brutal conqueror of the Inca Empire

Martin Wadseemuller

Cartographer who named Amerigo's Land

Opened North America to French colonization

Champlain

Hernando Cortes

Greedy conqueror of the Aztec Empire

Francisco Coronado

explored southwestern states and conquered Hawikuh

La Salle's ; North America

Ambition was to find the mouth of the Mississippi River and claim the interior of —— for France

Hernando de Soto

Explored southeastern states and crossed Mississippi River

Lopez de Cardenas

First let Europeans to view Grand Canyon

Black legend encomienda

La Leyenda Negra meaning ________ was part of the Spanish __________ system

Great Lakes ; Gulf of Mexico

La Salle traveled the length of the Mississippi River from the ______ to its mouth at the __________

Protector of the Indians

Las Casas a priest of the Dominican Order and whose father had sailed with Columbus advocated Indian rights and earned the title "————-"

Spain

Magellan sailed under the flag of —

The earth is round , Asia could be reached by sailing west , the new world was two large continents, the earth was much larger than what had been thought

Magellans voyage was important because it proved these four things

Pedro Cabral

Portuguese discover of Brazil

United States

The Narváez-de Vaca expedition opened the door to the vast area of North America known as the — —

Juan Ponce de Leon

Searched for Fountain of Youth

Demarcation

The Treaty of Tordesillas established the Line of — between Spanish and Portuguese holdings

Isthmus of Panama

The first Spanish continental settlement was located on the —

New York Harbor ; Hudson

Verrazano searched for a Northwest Passage and sailed into _______ but failed to discover the ____ River

Amerigo Vespucci

Was the first European to use the term "New World" in reference to the American continents

New Orleans

What American city was a fulfillment of La Salle's dream of a New World Paris?

They wanted to create a lucrative fur trade in North America

Why did the Rouen merchants hire Champlain to explore the St. Lawrence River area

Cartier ; wasn't worth anything

____ discovered the St. Lawrence River, which he sailed as far as the Lachine Rapids; but he returned to France believing America _________

Tenochtitlan Montezuma

— was the Aztec capital and — was the Emperor

Louis Jolliet; Jacques Marquette

—— a trader, and —— a priest, explored the Mississippi River in search of the Northwest Passage


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