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| 118730113 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages | 0 | |
| 118730114 | 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 responsibilites. | 1 | |
| 118730115 | Bartolome de las Casas | First bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labor | 2 | |
| 118730116 | Potosi | In Peru - 1545 - huge silver deposits discovered. Shipped back to Sp. - financed expeditions of Philip II. Peruvian ores, Indian labor and Spanish management funded militant, anti-Protestant phase of counter-reformation | 3 | |
| 118730117 | Encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it | 4 | |
| 118730118 | 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 | |
| 118730119 | Mestizo | a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | 6 | |
| 118730120 | Mulatto | The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent | 7 | |
| 118730121 | 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 | |
| 118730122 | Castas | middle-level status between Europeans and pure minorities (made up of mezitos and mulattoes) | 9 | |
| 118730123 | Manumission | A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave | 10 | |
| 118730124 | House of Burgesses | the first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legistlative acts | 11 | |
| 118730125 | 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 | 12 | |
| 118730126 | Puritans | Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization | 13 | |
| 118730127 | Iroquois Confederacy | An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English, it dominated West New England | 14 | |
| 118730128 | New France | French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608. New France fell to the British in 1763 | 15 | |
| 118730129 | Coureurs de bois | (runners of the woods) French fur traders, many of mixed Amerindian heritage, who lived among and often married with Amerindian peoples of North America | 16 | |
| 118730130 | 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 | 17 | |
| 118730131 | Mita | Labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion; all communities were expected to contribute; an essential aspect of Inca imperial control | 18 | |
| 118730132 | Metis | one of several historically variable terms (michif, bois brûlé, chicot, halfbreed, country-born, mixed blood) used in Canada and some parts of the northern US to describe people of mixed North American Indian-European descent | 19 |
