History Of Latin America And The Carribean Flashcards

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Atahulpa?

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Emperor of the Inca on the arrival of the Spanish.

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Monteuzuma ll?

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Emperor of the Aztecs on the arrival of the Spanish.

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Conquistador?

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Spanish word that means “conqueror”.

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Hernan Cortes?

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Spaniard that conquered the Aztec.

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Pizarro??

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Spaniard that conquered the Inca.

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Nahuatl?

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Language of the Aztec.

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Tenochitlan?

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Floating Gardens

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Means by which the Aztec turned a swamp into a city.

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Malintzin?

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A native woman who served as a translator and helped the Spanish.

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Horse

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Animal brought by Europeans which helped them in battle.

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Crops taken from the New World to the Old World.

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Tomatoes, potatoes, and corn

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Creole/Criollo

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Person born in the Americas whose parents were born in Europe.

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Triangular Trade

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Atlantic route which brought slaves to work on plantations in the Americas.

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Mestizo

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Offspring of a Native American and a European.

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Hacienda

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Huge farm/ Ranch in Spanish American colonies.

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Catholic Christianity

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The religion spread by Spaniards arriving in the New World.

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Enlightenment

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Philosophy from Europe which said that all people have the right to rule themselves.

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Napoleon

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French emperor who first freed slaves, then re-enslaved them.

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Miguel Hidalgo

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Catholic priest who liberated Mexico from Spain.

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Simon Bolivar

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Nickname was the “Liberator”.

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Brazil

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South American country colonized by Portugal.

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Cuzco

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Capital city of the Inca Empire.

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Quechua

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Language of the Inca.

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Paved Highways

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Means by which the Inca were able to connect the distant parts of the empire.

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Diseases

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Killed more American natives then weapons.

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Colombian Exchange

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Exchange of crops, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds.

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Crops taken from the Old World to the New World.

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Sugar cane, coffee, and wheat.

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Mulatto

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Offspring of Native American and a European.

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Mission

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Spanish compound made up of church, school, and agricultural area run by a priest

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Spanish and Portuguese

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The two most commonly spoken European languages in Latin American.

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Toussaint L’Ouverture

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Former slave who led a movement to liberate slaves in St. Domingue

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Cry of Dolores

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Then name of the speech given to encourage native Mexicans to revolt against colonizers.

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Haiti

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Name of St. Domingue after it became a free republic.

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Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia

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6 countries of northern South America liberated together.