| A | B |
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| Atahualpa | Leader of the Incas. Kidnapped by Pizarro, held for ransom, and then killed, instead of returned once ransom paid |
| Charles I | King of Spain who divided the Americas into Peru and New Spain |
| Sir Frances Drake | English pirate who was allowed by the English to attack the Spanish ships |
| Elizabeth | Queen of England |
| Robert de La Salle | sailed down the Mississippi River to Louisiana and claimed the whole area for France. |
| Martin Luther | German Monk who started the Protestant Reformation |
| Malinche | Indian woman who was given to Cortes as an interpreter and guide. She was given to Cortez by Indian enemies of the Aztecs. |
| Pedro Menendez | Spanish conquistador who drove the French out of Florida and established St. Augustine |
| Peter Minuit | Governor of New Sweden who surrendered his land to Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherlands |
| Moctezuma | Emperor or leader of the Aztecs. His people stoned him to death. |
| Pedro De Peralta | In 1609, established the city of Santa Fe |
| Philip II | King of Spain who assembled a Spanish Armada to crush the English Fleet in July, 1588 |
| Pope' | Tewa Indian who successfully revolted and drove the Spanish out and kept them out for approx. 12 years |
| Gaspar de Portola' & Junipero Serra | In 1769, established the settlement of San Diego on San Diego Bay (Spanish) |
| Quetzalcoatl | Aztec God/Some Aztecs and Moctezuma thought that Cortes was that god coming back to claim his kingdom |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Established the colony Roanoke Island off the coast of present day North Carolina. Named it Virginia after Elizabeth, "The Virgin Queen" |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Governor of New Netherlands who conquered New Sweden and it became a part of New Netherlands |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquered the Incas. Kidnapped Alahuaalpa, received the ransom, and then had him killed. |
| Cortes | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs |
