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| 5828372169 | small pox | a disease commonly spread by europeans to new lands, often caused an epidemic among the native peoples of the land and a severe decline in their populations, also caused a decrease in available workers and laborers | 0 | |
| 5828378662 | mestizo | children of both spanish/portuguese and indigenous parentage, caused by the low numbers of european female migrants to the new colonies in the americas, this new race also disrupted the social hierarchy | 1 | |
| 5828385406 | encomienda/encomendaros | a type of spanish institution which gave spanish settlers the right to force native Tainos to work in their mines or fields, in return for this labor they looked after their workers health and welfare, they also encouraged their conversion to christianity | 2 | |
| 5828394770 | conquistador | spanish conquerors who moved beyond the caribbean into mexico, panama, and peru | 3 | |
| 5828397546 | audiencias | university educated lawyers sent to the spanish americas to ensure the authority of the viceroys, they heard appeals from the natives and settlers who disagreed with viceroys decisions and policies, they also conducted reviews of the viceroys performances, if they received a bad review they would no longer have a job | 4 | |
| 5828405052 | treaty of tordesillas | a treaty between spain and portugal over land claims, the spanish got everything to the west/left of their imaginary north/south line, while the portuguese got everything east/right to the right->brazil | 5 | |
| 5828413535 | peninsulares | the name for migrants born in europe and who came from the iberian peninsula and who lived in the spanish or portuguese colonies, they were at the top of the social hierarchy | 6 | |
| 5828418594 | quinto | the 1/5th of silver produced in the spanish americas that went back to the spanish government, it was a principle revenue that helped to finance the powerful spanish army and bureaucracy, it also helped improve the global economy | 7 | |
| 5828429005 | criollos | children born in the americas to two iberian parents | 8 | |
| 5828430727 | mulattoes | a child of mixed european (white) and african (black) parentage | 9 | |
| 5828432988 | repartimiento | the labor system that replaced the encomienda system because its abusive nature towards the natives, this system was replaced by a free-labor system | 10 | |
| 5828437118 | hernan cortes | started the conquest of mexico when he led a small band of people inland to find gold, he was aided by dona marina as he toppled the aztec empire and established a spanish colony | 11 | |
| 5828442153 | christopher columbus | the portuguese explorer aided by the king and queen of spain, he became the first recorded european to reach the americas | 12 | |
| 5828447754 | francisco pizarro | the spanish man who toppled the inca empire in modern day peru, he established spanish rule and moved the capital from cuzco to lima by the coast | 13 | |
| 5828451792 | montecuzoma II | the ruler of the aztec empire when hernan cortes toppled it and killed him, he was the 9th aztec ruler and he ruled from Tenochtitlan which the spanish renamed mexico city when the established their colony | 14 | |
| 5828464461 | dona marina | the lady who helped hernan cortes conquer mexico, she was a native aztec and seen as a traitor, she also gave birth to one of hernan cortes's kids | 15 |
