Third Edition The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History
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| 110595863 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | 0 | |
| 110595864 | Council of the Indies | The institution responsible for supervising Spain's colonies in the Americas from 1524 to the early eighteenth century, when it lost all but judicial responsibilities. | 1 | |
| 110595865 | Bartolome de Las Casas | ~?!?!?~ | 2 | |
| 110595866 | Potosi | Located in Bolivia, one of the richest silver mining centers and most populous cities in colonial Spanish America. | 3 | |
| 110595867 | Encomienda | A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the Amerindians. | 4 | |
| 110595868 | Creoles | In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas, the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples. | 5 | |
| 110595869 | Mestizo | The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed Amerindian and European descent. | 6 | |
| 110595870 | Mulatto | The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent. | 7 | |
| 110595871 | Indentured Servant | A migrant to British colonies in the Americas who paid for passage by agreeing to work for a set term ranging from four to seven years. | 8 | |
| 110595872 | House of Burgesses | Elected assembly in colonial Virginia, created in 1618. | 9 | |
| 110595873 | Pilgrims | Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands. | 10 | |
| 110595874 | Puritans | English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. | 11 | |
| 110595875 | Iroquois Confederacy | An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (six after 1722) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English, the Confederacy dominated the area from western New England to the Great Lakes. | 12 | |
| 110595876 | New France | French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608. New France fell to the British in 1763. | 13 | |
| 110595877 | Coureurs de bois | French fur traders, many of mixed Amerindian heritage, who lived among and often married with Amerindian peoples of North America. | 14 | |
| 110595878 | Tupac Amaru II | Member of Inca aristocracy who led a rebellion against Spanish authorities in Peru in 1780-1781. He was captured and executed with his wife and other members of his family. | 15 |
