Sss Flashcards
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Marco Polo
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Italian explorer who traveled to China through Central Asia
2
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Balboa
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Spanish explorer crossed the isthmus of panama and the first to see the Pacific Ocean
3
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Magellan
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Spanish explorer. His crew sailed around to prove the earth was round
4
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Cortes
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He overthrew the Aztec empire by conquering tenchitotlan and destroying it making Mexico City the capital of new Spain.
5
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Pizarro
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Spanish conquered and destroyed the Incan empire claiming it for Spain
6
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Columbian exchange
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The name for introduction of new animals, crops, disease to the new world and the importing of the new crops from America to Europe
7
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Ponce de Leon
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Spanish explorer who explored Florida looking for the fountain of youth claiming it for Spain
