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Makers of America:
- Conquistadores included Hernán Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who conquered the Aztecs and the Incas respectively.
- Within half a century of Columbus' "discovery" of America, they had claimed, for Spain, territory that stretched form Colorado to Argentina.
- They spread from Cuba through Mexico and from Panama, south through Peru.
- As the Spanish crown tightened its grip on its colonies, though, the conquistadors lost more and more power.
- Most of them never achieved their dreams of glory, though a few received royal titles.
- Many of them married Indian women, creating a new class of people called mestizos.
- The mestizos formed a bridge between Latin America's Indian and European races.
Places and Countries:
Timbuktu- Capital of the West African kingdom of Mali, a place located in the Niger River Valley.
Madeira, the Canaries, São Tomé, Pricipe-Areas where sugar plantations were established by Portugal then Spain where
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