125161684 | Dona Marina | Cortez's interputer | 0 | |
125161685 | Mulattoes | People of African and European descent | 1 | |
125161686 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541) | 2 | |
125161687 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) | 3 | |
125161688 | Mita System | recruit workers for particularly difficult and dangerous chores that free laborers would not accept | 4 | |
125161689 | Seven Years' War | Known in America as French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions. | 5 | |
125161690 | Hacienda | the main house on a ranch or large estate | 6 | |
125161691 | Peninsulares | Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class | 7 | |
125161692 | Indentured Servants | colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years | 8 | |
125161693 | Potosi | Located in Bolivia, one of the richest silver mining centers and most populous cities in colonial Spanish America. (p. 479) | 9 | |
125161694 | Viceroys | Royal governors sent by Spain to rule in the King's name. | 10 | |
125161695 | Mestizos | A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory | 11 | |
125161696 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Set the Line of Demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas. | 12 | |
125161697 | Conquistadors | spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain | 13 | |
125161698 | Encomienda System | priviledge given by Spain to Spanish settlers in the Americas which allowed to control the lands and people of a certain territory | 14 |
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