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| Ferdinand & Isabella | We were known as the Catholic Rulers. We also completed teh Reconquest by driving the Moors from Granada, which was the ast remaining Spanish Region under Moorish Control. Finally, we financed Columbus's four expeditionary voyages. |
| Simón Bolivar | Main figures in the struggle for S. American independence from Spain. He won independence for Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. He is known as El Libertador (The Liberator). |
| Bernardo O'Higgins | He was a Chilean general who helped in the liberation of Chile and then became the first president of Chile. |
| José de San Martín | He was an Argentinian general who won independence for the southern part of S. America including Argentina and Chile. |
| Antonio José de Sucre | Defeated the Spanish army in Peru in the last battle for S. American Independence |
| Padre Miguel Hidalgo | Mexican priest who began the struggle for Mexican independence by "El Grito de Dolores" |
| Benito Juárez | Zapotec Indian who became President of Mexico. Abraham Lincoln of Mexico |
| Gabriela Mistral | Female Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945 |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Famous author of don Quijote de la Mancha. |
| Lope de Vega | One of Spain's leading playwright and dramatist in the Golden Age. |
| El Greco | Greek painter who lived in Toledo. Many paintings had religious themes. "View of Toledo" |
| Diego Velázquez | Court painter. Painted "Las meninas." |
| Francisco Goya | His art work attacks the social and political decay of the period. Self-imposed exile in France. |
| Pablo Picasso | Painter with the three periods-Blue, Rose and Cubism. |
| Joan Miró | Painter of abstract art. Lots of stars and dots. |
| Salvador Dalí | Surrealist painter- "The persistance of memory." |
| Pablo Casals | Cellist of international fame |
| El Cid | Spanish national hero who conquered Valencia from the Moors |
| Miguel de Unamuno | Leader of the Generation of '98. Spanish Scholar and writer. Wrote "TheTragic Sense of Life." |
| Vasco Núñez de Balboa | Traveled through Panama to discover the Pacific Ocean. (He did not name it.) |
| Roberto Clemente | Pittsburgh Pirates righ fielder. Earned 12 Golden Gloves. Inducted into Hall of Fame in '75. Airplane crash while on a humanitarian visit. |
| Hernán Cortés | Captured Montezuma and defeated the Aztecs after arresting Cuauhtémoc (1521) Started expeditions to Honduras and CA. |
| Cuauhtémoc | The last Aztec emperor who fell to Cortés. Explored Honduras with Cortés. Killed b/c he was thought to be conspiring against Cortés. |
| Montezuma | Aztec emperor who was captured by Cortés, but killed by a rock misthrown by one of his people. |
| Porfirio Díaz | President/dictator of Mexico for 35 years. |
| Francisco Franco | Spanish military dictator. Re-established Spain's Monarchy |
| Pancho Villa | As a young man, Mexico's Robinhood. As an older man, he was a revolutionary hero of the north. He also got upset at United States and attacked Columbus, New Mexico. |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquered Peru and defeated the Inca's. Founded the city Lima. |
| Don Quijote | Famous literary knight who fought windmills. |
| Sancho Panza | Sidekick of Don Quijote. |
| José Clemente Orozco | Mexican Muralist who painted many political/historical designs both in Mexico and in the United States. |
| Diego Rivera | Mexican Muralist who painted in U.S and Mexico. Depicted history. Married to Frida Kahlo, a famous artist. |
| Emiliano Zapata | Mexican Revolutionary leader of the south. Overthrowed wealthy landowners, and gave back to the Indians |
| Alfonso XIII | King of Spain,tried to prevent liberal reforms. When Spanish people voted for a republic, he went into exile to avoid violence. |
