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- Empire based in Tenochtitlan (modern day Mexico City) in 1325.
- Began expanding its territory in 1428.
- Included 450 altepetl city-states at its peak (4-6 million ppl)
- Failed to sufficiently incorporate conquered ppl into its empire
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- Connected Europe with the Americas
- Voyaged to Hispaniola in 1492
- Resulted in the exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases that shaped the modern world
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- Exchange of plants, animals, goods, and diseases between Europe and America after 1492
- Smallpox was the most deadly of these. It caused death in a large of amount of Indigenous people
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- Term for Spaniards who conquered Mexico, Peru, and Central America in the 1500s.
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- (Literally - "entrusted")
- System that entrusted a specific number of Amerindians to a Spanish settler
- Settler extracted labor, gold, and other goods in exchange for teaching them Christianity
- Intended as a way to protect indigenous people, resulted in further expoitation
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