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Francisco Pizarro

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conquered the Incas with the Spanish conquistadors

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Simon Bolivar

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life goal to free Venezuela; freed many other South American countries

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Macchu Pichu

Front

major site of the Incas

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Miguel Hidalgo

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priest turned rebel; led Mexico's independence movement

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Montezuma II

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leader of the Aztecs; thought Cortes was a god in human form

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Atahualpa

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leader of the Incas; taken captive by the Spanish, paid for his release, was killed anyway

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Hernan Cortes

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conquered the Aztecs with Spanish conquistadors

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Toussaint L'Ouverture

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freed slave; formed an army to try and free Haiti

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Emilio Zapata

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leader of the Zapatistas; commanded a rebel army in Mexico to return land to the peasant farmers

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Fidel Castro

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leader of Cuba; after Batista took over as dictator, he formed a rebel army to drive him out of power

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Atlantic Slave Trade

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the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas

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Cuban Revolution

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the revolution led by Fidel Castro and his guerrilla fighters against Fulgencio Batista in Cuba- 1959

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Tenochtitlan

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major site of the Aztecs

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Fulgencio Batista

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pro-American dictator of Cuba before Castro. His overthrow led to Castro and communists taking over Cuba

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Columbian Exchange

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Exchange of goods, ideas, diseases, and people between the Americas, Africa, and Europe.

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