Spanish Conquistadors in the New World | Finding Your Roots

PBS Learning Media
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Classroom Material
Keywords
Finding Your Roots Season Eight Henry Louis Gates DNA genealogy ancestry roots ancestors weta Melissa Villasenor FYR hidalgo conquistador indigenous pacification age of exploration basque colonization civilization empire new spain mexico family history Basque region Biscay Basque Country Spain Zamora Mexico Spanish conquest Spanish explorers hidalgos Spanish nobility Spanish colonies Colonial Spain indigenous peoples Aztec Empire Aztecs Hernan Cortes Montezuma
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History-Social Science
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Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Classroom Teacher / Educator
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Spanish Conquistadors in the New World | Finding Your Roots

In Season Eight of Finding Your Roots, actor, Melissa Villaseñor learned that her ancestor was a Basque conquistador who sought to overtake Mexican land for Spain in the mid-1500s.
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PBS Learning Media

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