Vocabulary and important concepts from World Civilizations: The Global Experience, AP Edition. Helps prepare for tests in AP World or AP Exam
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| 295459683 | Ferdiand of Aragon | married Isabella of Castile to carry out a program of unification that sought to eleminate religious and ethnic diversity in their kingdoms | 0 | |
| 295459684 | encomiendas | grants of American Indian labor | 1 | |
| 295459685 | Iberian penisula | area that held large estates with slaves, professional bureacracy, system of slave trade | 2 | |
| 295459686 | Isabella of Castile | married Ferdiand of Aragon to carry out a program of unification that sought to eleminate religious and ethnic diversity in their kingdoms | 3 | |
| 295459687 | Hispaniola | colony on island of Taino people, part of Columbus' voyage | 4 | |
| 295459688 | encomendero | holder of encomiendas, able to use the people or tax them | 5 | |
| 295459689 | Bartolome de Las Casas | friar and conquistador turned priest , insinuated struggle for justice for Native Americans | 6 | |
| 295459690 | Hernan Cortes | led an expedition to the coast of Mexico, gained allies with Indians under Aztec subject the together defeated Aztec | 7 | |
| 295459691 | Moctezuma II | leader of Aztec killed by Spaniards | 8 | |
| 295459692 | Mexico City | new capital replacing Tenochtitlan in 1535 | 9 | |
| 295459693 | New Spain | area in Mexico that was once the reign of the Aztecs | 10 | |
| 295459694 | Pedro de Valdivia | conquistador entered central Chile and Santiago in 1541 | 11 | |
| 295459695 | Francisco Vazquezde Coronado | conquistador 1540-1542 in SW U.S. | 12 | |
| 295459696 | Huancavelica | mountain of mercury | 13 | |
| 295459697 | Potosi | in upper Peru, silver mining town | 14 | |
| 295459698 | haciendas | rural estates with forced labor, basis of weath and power for local aristocracy | 15 | |
| 295459699 | consulado | merchant guild | 16 | |
| 295459700 | galleons | large heavily armed Spanish ships | 17 | |
| 295459701 | Treaty of Tordesillas | 1494, between Castile and Portugal drew hypothetical N-S line around the globe and reserving to Portugal the discovered lands east of the line and to Castile lands to the west | 18 | |
| 295459702 | letrados | university trained lawyers from Spain, important part of bureaucratic system | 19 | |
| 295459703 | Recopilacion | 1681 codified the laws into the basis for government in the colonies | 20 | |
| 295459704 | Council of the Indies | issued laws and advised the Spanish king | 21 | |
| 295459705 | viceroyalties | representatives for the Spanish king in Mexico City and Lima | 22 | |
| 295459706 | viceroys | nobles, direct representatives for the king | 23 | |
| 295459707 | audiencias | superior courts to help make and apply law | 24 | |
| 295459708 | Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz | female author, poet, musician, social thinker, at court at Mexico City | 25 | |
| 295459709 | captaincies | nobles giving strips of land along the coast to colonized and develop | 26 | |
| 295459710 | Paulistas | group of backwoodsman, Portuguese claims, struck gold 1695 | 27 | |
| 295459711 | Minas Gerais | region where great gold rush began, where Paulistas first struck, gold | 28 | |
| 295459712 | Rio de Janerio | port closet to mines | 29 | |
| 295459713 | sociedad de castas | hiearchy based on race in New World | 30 | |
| 295459714 | Peninsulares | Spainards born in spain | 31 | |
| 295459715 | Creoles | whites born in the New World | 32 | |
| 295459716 | amigos del pais | friends of the country, met in many cities to discuss and plan reforms but not political changes | 33 | |
| 295459717 | War of Spanish Succession | 1702-1713, stopped when Treaty of Utrcht recognized Bourbon family branch | 34 | |
| 295459718 | Charles III | moved by economic nationalsim and a desire for strong centralized government to institute economic, administrative, and millitary reforms | 35 | |
| 295459719 | Jose de Galvez | revealed corruption in Mexico, moved to eleminate Creoles from government | 36 | |
| 295459720 | Marquis of Pombal | 1755-1766, Portuguals authorian prime minister, expelled Jesuits | 37 | |
| 295459721 | Comuero Revolt | 1781, did not like govern,ent control of tobacco and liquor consuption, prices, and new taxes | 38 | |
| 295459722 | Tupac Amaru | led great Indian uprising | 39 |
