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| 132246376 | Columbian Exchange | The transfer of peoples, animals, plants, and diseases between the new and old worlds. | 0 | |
| 132246377 | Council of the Indies | was formed in 1524 to govern the Americas from Spain. Wrote laws, selected officials and judged legal cases. | 1 | |
| 132246378 | Bartolomé 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 | |
| 132246379 | Potosí | Located in Bolivia (but now Peru), one of the richest silver mining centers and most populous cities in colonial Spanish America. (p. 479) | 3 | |
| 132246380 | economienda | In the Spanish colonies in the1540s, Amerindian people were divided among sellers and were forced to provide them with labor or with textiles, food, or other goods. | 4 | |
| 132246381 | creoles | Whites born in America to European Parents | 5 | |
| 132246382 | mestizo | mixed European (Creole) and Amerindian ancestry | 6 | |
| 132246383 | mulatto | a person of mixed african and european ancestry | 7 | |
| 132246384 | indentured servant | Worker who exchanged labor for help getting started in America | 8 | |
| 132246385 | House of Burgesses | 1660, Colonial Government was administered by a Crown-Appointed governor and his council, as well as by representatives of town meetings | 9 | |
| 132246386 | Pilgrims | Settlers who wished to break completely with the Church of England | 10 | |
| 132246387 | Puritans | wished to purify the Church of England, not break with it. | 11 | |
| 132246388 | Iroquois Confederacy | An alliance among the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, asnd Seneca Indian Tribes resulting in alliances and trade relationships that gave them access to the rich fur trade of Canada. | 12 | |
| 132246389 | New France | Samuel de Champlain founded a New Colony at Quebec on St Lawrence River in 1608. | 13 | |
| 132246390 | Courers de Bois | "Runners of the Woods" | 14 | |
| 132246391 | Tupac Amaru II | Was formerly Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui, but had renamed himself Tupac Amaru II. His dream of empire included reviving the Incan Empire and modeling it along European lines and keeping in place the Catholic Church. He claimed to be adjusting what already exists. | 15 |
