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| grants | To encourage explorers, the Spanish king offered _______, or large sums of money, to those who would lead expeditions. |
| conquistadors | The explorers who conquered man of the native peoples who were already living in areas explored were called _________________ or 'conquerors.' |
| Ponce de Leo'n | ______________ had sailed with Christopher Columbus and had helped take over Puerto Rico. |
| fountain of youth | Ponce de Leo'n heard about Bimini and a special spring on the island called the '__________________.' |
| Ponce de Leon ended up landing in the present day state of ________________. | Florida |
| Ponce de Leon named the land for _____________. | Spain |
| Ponce de Leon named it La Florida, Spanish for "_____________." | flowery |
| Ponce de Leon was the first Spanish explorer | to step foot on what became part of the United States |
| Hernando Cortes | In 1519, Spain sent ____________ on an expedition to find gold in the land of the Aztecs. |
| Montezuma | The Aztecs believed that Cortes was a light-skinned god that they thought would return to rule the people. The Aztec emperor, _____________, welcomed Cortes and offered him gifts. |
| prisoner | Cortex took Montezuma _______________, hoping to rule the Aztecs by capturing their king. |
| Mexico City | Cortes and his men tore down the Aztec temples and destroyed the city. On the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the conquistadors built _____________ and later became the capital of Spain's new empire in the Americas. |
| priest | After Cortes found gold, the Spanish went looking for more riches. The sent a ___________ named Marco de Niza. When he returned he said he had seen a golden city. |
| Coronado | In 1540, _________ set out to find the seven cities. They were disappointed that they could not find the city. |
| Francisco Pizarro | _______ ________ was a Spanish conquistador who met people from the Inca Empire. |
| Atahuallpa | The Inca leader _______ refused to accept Christianity and Spanish rule so they were attacked and their leader was taken prisoner. |
| Hernando De Soto | In 1539, _______ __________ and more than 600 soldiers landed near Tampa Bay, Florida. |
| De Soto and his men later became the first Europeans to see the ______________ | Mississippi River |
| De Soto died of _____. | fever |
| Out of 600 men who started the journey with De Soto, only ___ survived. | 300 |
| In 1517, a German priest named ___________ began to call for reforms in the Catholic Church. | Martin Luther |
| Those who protested actions of Catholic leaders became known as _______. | Protestants |
| The Catholic Church tried to keep power and wanted to gain more followers. To do this, the Church sent religious teachers, or ________________, to convert Native Americans. | Missionaries |
