1213794630 | Atahualpa | Inca ruler | 0 | |
1213794631 | Audiencias | Court system of lawyers that heard appeals against viceroys | 1 | |
1213794632 | Chamorro | Indigenous peoples of the Mariana islands | 2 | |
1213794633 | Conquistadores | Spanish adventurers who conquered Central and South America in the sixteenth century | 3 | |
1213794634 | Criollos | Term for Spaniards born in Americas during the Spanish colonial period | 4 | |
1213794635 | Cuzco | A town in the Andes, former capital of Inca empire | 5 | |
1213794636 | Doña Marina | Congolese prophet and leader of Christian movement | 6 | |
1213794637 | Encomienda | System that gave the Spanish settlers the right to compel the indigenous peoples of the Americas to work in the fields | 7 | |
1213794638 | Engenho | Portuguese term for a sugar mill | 8 | |
1213794640 | Fransico Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca empire | 9 | |
1213794641 | Fur trade | North American fur trade from 17th c - 19th c | 10 | |
1213794642 | Guaraní | Indigenous people/language of modern Paraguay and Bolivia | 11 | |
1213794643 | Hacienda | Large Latin American estates | 12 | |
1213794644 | Hernán Cortés | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico | 13 | |
1213794645 | Indentured labor | Poor people who would sell 7 years of their working loves | 14 | |
1213794646 | Malintzin | Woman that acted as interpreter/guide for Cortés | 15 | |
1213794648 | Mestizo/métis | Latin American term for children of SPanish and native parentage | 16 | |
1213794649 | Mita system | Spanish colonial system in which colonized subjects had to work a prescribed number of days for overlords | 17 | |
1213794650 | Motecuzoma II | Aztec emperor, overthrown by Cortéz | 18 | |
1213794651 | Mulattoes | Person with mixed European and African ancestry | 19 | |
1213794652 | Potosí | Spanish discovered silver in 1545 here | 20 | |
1213794653 | Quechua | South American ethnic group of Peru, once ruled Inca empire | 21 | |
1213794654 | Quiché | Mayan ethnic group of south-central Guatemala | 22 | |
1213794656 | Taino | Caribbean people, first to come into contact with Christopher Columbus | 23 | |
1213794658 | Viceroy | A ruler of a colony who exercises authority on behalf of a monarch | 24 | |
1213794659 | Virgin of Guadalupe | Iconic image of the Virgin Mary | 25 | |
1213794661 | Zambos | Individuals born of indigenous and African parents | 26 |
New Worlds: The Americas And Oceania Flashcards
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