vocabulary words
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| 19391811 | audiencia | royal court of appeals , ten each viceroyalties, staffed by professional magistrates | 0 | |
| 19391812 | Bartolome de las casas | dominican friar, opposed forced labor , advocated indian rights | 1 | |
| 19391813 | consulado | merchant guild of selville, enjoyed virtual monopoly rights | 2 | |
| 19391814 | ecomienda | grants of indian laborers, earliest form of coerced labor in spanish colonies | 3 | |
| 19391815 | Francisco pizarro | led conquest of inca empire of peru beginning in 1535 | 4 | |
| 19391816 | Hernan cortes | led expedition of 600 to coast of mexico in 1519, defeated aztec empire, captured Tenochtitlan | 5 | |
| 19391817 | jose de galvez | spanish minister of the indies, eliminate creoles from upper bureaucracy, created intendents | 6 | |
| 19391818 | letrados | university, trained lawyers from spain and the new world, juricial core, legislative and adm. functions | 7 | |
| 19391819 | paulistas | backwoodsmen from sao paulo in brazil, searched for precious metals | 8 | |
| 19391820 | haciendas | rural estates in spanish colonies, produced agricultural products for consumers in america, basis of wealth and power foor aristocrats | 9 | |
| 19391821 | pedro de valdivia | spanish conquistador, est city of santiago | 10 | |
| 19391822 | mexico city | capital of new spain (tenochtitlan) | 11 | |
| 19391823 | peninsulares | people living in the new world colonies, but born in spain | 12 | |
| 19391824 | creoles | born in new wold, dominated economy, under peninsulares | 13 | |
| 19391825 | tupac amaru | mestizo leader of indian revolt in peru, supported by many of the lower class | 14 | |
| 19391826 | moctezuma ii | last independent aztec emperor, killed by hernan cortes | 15 | |
| 19392706 | hispanola | first island of carribean settled by spaniards, founded by columbus' second voyage | 16 | |
| 19392707 | mita | labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and religion, an essential aspect of inca imperial control | 17 | |
| 19392708 | new spain | spanish colonial possesions in mesoameric, based on an imperial system of the aztecs | 18 | |
| 19392709 | council of indies | bodies within the castile governmet that issued all laws and advised kings on all matters | 19 | |
| 19392710 | viceroyalities | 2 major divisions, one on lima, one on mexico city | 20 | |
| 19392711 | sor juan ines de la cruz | author poet and musician, intellectual woman | 21 | |
| 19392712 | pedro alvarez | portuguese navigator and explorer, european who discovered brazil | 22 | |
| 19392713 | ecomendero | holders of ecomiendas, able to use indians as workers or tax them | 23 | |
| 19392714 | juan gines de sepulveda | believed that american indians were natural born slaves | 24 |
