Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1. Marco Polo
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REF: Indirect Discoverers of the New World
2. Francisco Pizarro
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REF: The Spanish Conquistadores | Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadores
3. Moctezuma
ANS: Answers will vary.
REF: The Conquest of Mexico
4. Christopher Columbus
ANS: Answers will vary.
REF: Columbus Comes upon a New World
5. Hernán Cortés
ANS: Answers will vary.
REF: The Spanish Conquistadores | Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadores
6. John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto)
ANS: Answers will vary.
REF: The Spread of Spanish America
7. Francisco Coronado
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REF: The Spanish Conquistadores | The Spread of Spanish America
8. Junipero Serra
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REF: The Spread of Spanish America
9. Bartolomeu Dias
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REF: Europeans Enter Africa
10. Vasco da Gama
, ANS: Answers will vary.
REF: Europeans Enter Africa
11. Ferdinand and Isabella
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REF: Europeans Enter Africa
12. Bartolomé de Las Casas
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REF: The Spanish Conquistadores | Contending Voices: Europeans and Indians
13. Malinche
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REF: The Conquest of Mexico
14. Giovanni da Verrazano
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REF: The Spread of Spanish America
15. Jacques Cartier
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REF: The Spread of Spanish America
16. Robert La Salle
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REF: The Spread of Spanish America
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
17. Battle of Acoma
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REF: The Spread of Spanish America
18. mestizos
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REF: The Conquest of Mexico
19. Treaty of Tordesillas
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REF: The Spanish Conquistadores
, 20. Incas
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REF: Peopling the Americas
21. Great Ice Age
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REF: Peopling the Americas
22. Canadian Shield
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REF: The Shaping of North America
23. Mound Builders
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REF: The Earliest Americans
24. Chaco Canyon
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REF: The Earliest Americans
25. Black Legend
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REF: The Spread of Spanish America
26. conquistadores
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REF: The Spanish Conquistadores
27. Aztecs
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REF: Peopling the Americas
28. Popé's Rebellion
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REF: The Spread of Spanish America
29. Pueblo Indians
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REF: The Spread of Spanish America
30. "tidewater" region
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