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6237328251Hernan Cortes political pg. 669Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.0
6237328252Motecuzoma II political pg. 670the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520.1
6237328253Francisco Pizarro political pg. 670Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.2
6237328254Atahualpa political pg. 670the last Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire before the Spanish conques3
6237328255Cabeza de Vaca political pg. 676Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition4
6237328256James Cook political pg. 689Captain James Cook FRS RN was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.5
6237328257Mestizo interactions pg. 676Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Spain, Spanish America, and the Philippines to mean a person of combined European and Amerindian or Asian descent, or someone who would have been deemed a Castizo (one European parent and one Mestizo parent)6
6237328258Mita interactions pg. 679Mit'a was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire.7
6237328259Encomienda economic pg. 679The encomienda system was used during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, whereby conquistadors (conquerers) were granted the towns of the native people they conquered.8
6237328260Taino cultural pg. 666The Taíno were an Arawak people who were the indigenous people of the Caribbean and Florida9
6237328261Conquistadores political pg. 668Conquistadors is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.10
6237328262Treaty of Tordesillas political pg. 671Treaty of Tordesillas, (June 7, 1494), agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.11
6237328263Tupac Amaru rebellion political pg. 680The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II (1780-c. 1782) was an uprising of native and mestizo peasants against the Bourbon reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. While Túpac Amaru II, an early leader of the rebellion, was captured and executed in 1781, the rebellion continued for at least another year under other leaders.12
6237328264Engenho political pg. 681Engenho is a colonial-era Portuguese term for a sugar cane mill and the associated facilities.13
6237328265Indentured labor economic pg. 681Indentured servitude was a labor system in which people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a fixed term of years. It was widely employed in the 18th century in the British colonies in North America and elsewhere.14
6237328266Aboriginal Australians cultural pg. 687Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia"15

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