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| 97832577 | Taino | A Caribbean tribe who were the first indigenous peoples from the Americas to come into contact with Christopher Columbus. | 0 | |
| 97832578 | Encomienda | system that gave the Spanish settlers (encomenderos) the right to compel the indigenous peoples of the Americas to work in the mines or fields. | 1 | |
| 97832579 | Repartimiento | The Repartimiento de Labor was a colonial forced labor system imposed upon the indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines: like the encomienda. | 2 | |
| 97832580 | Conquistadors | adventurers such as Cortés and Pizarro who conquered Central and South America in the sixteenth century. | 3 | |
| 97832581 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547). | 4 | |
| 97832582 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541). | 5 | |
| 97832583 | audiencias | Spanish courts in Latin America. | 6 | |
| 97832584 | Cabeza de Vaca | Spanish nobleman who joined an expedition of some three hundred explorers who went from Hispaniola to investigate Florida in 1527. | 7 | |
| 97832585 | mestizo | Latin American term for children of Spanish and native parentage. | 8 | |
| 97832586 | zambos | Latin American term for individuals born of indigenous and African parents. | 9 | |
| 97832587 | mulattoes | an offspring of European and African parentage. | 10 | |
| 97832588 | peninsulares | Latin American officials from Spain or Portugal. | 11 | |
| 97832589 | criollos (creoles) | people born in the Americas of Spanish or Portuguese ancestry. | 12 | |
| 97832590 | metis | Canadian term for individuals of mixed European and indigenous ancestry. | 13 | |
| 97832591 | mita system | Spanish authorities annually required each native village to send one-seventh of its male population to work for four months in the mines at Potosí. (like Incas) | 14 | |
| 97832592 | quinto | The one-fifth of Mexican and Peruvian silver production that was reserved for the Spanish monarchy. | 15 | |
| 97832593 | engenho | Brazilian sugar mill; the term also came to symbolize the entire complex world relating to the production of sugar. | 16 | |
| 97832594 | Virgin of Guadalupe | a distinctly Mexican faith and promise of salvation; symbol of Catholic Virgin of Mary in Mexico. | 17 | |
| 97832595 | terra australis incognita | "unknown southern land" that European geographers thought must exist in the world's southern hemisphere to balance the huge landmasses north of the equator. | 18 |
