Cultural Diffusion in the Americas Vocab

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Native to a place

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Indigenous

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The spread and mixing of cultures

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Cultural Diffusion

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Italian explorer who opened contact between the Americas and Europe, causing devastating effects for indigenous people.

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Christopher Columbus

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Spanish explorer who caused the fall of the Aztecs.

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Hernan Cortes

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Religion spread by the Spanish

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Catholicism

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Permanent structures like buildings and roads

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Infrastructure

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Large scale farming

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Agriculture

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Population

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Number of people

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Capital of the Aztecs

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Tenochtitlan

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Reasons for European exploration:

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Gold, God, Glory