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| 310885490 | Ecomienda | a system in which spanish monarchs gave land to colonist. These landowners were granted the right to force Indians living there to work the land | 0 | |
| 310885491 | Peninsulares | Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class | 1 | |
| 310885492 | sovereignty | the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries | 2 | |
| 310885493 | creoles | People who had Spanish or Portuguese parents but were born in Latin America. | 3 | |
| 310885494 | Impressments | policy of forcing people into military or public service | 4 | |
| 310885495 | Castas | middle-level status between Europeans and pure minorities (made up of mezitos and mulattoes) | 5 | |
| 310885496 | 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 | 6 | |
| 310885497 | Potosi mine | A city developed around a silver mine in Potosí, Bolivia- people involved got very rich- during 16th century Spain | 7 | |
| 310885498 | Moctezuma | Aztec emperor defeated and killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes. | 8 | |
| 310885499 | Jesuits | Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism. | 9 | |
| 310885500 | repartamiento | - In the Spanish colonies, a replacement for the encomienda system that limited the number of working hours for laborers and provided for fair wages | 10 | |
| 310885501 | mulatto | The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent. | 11 | |
| 310885502 | capitalism | an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth. | 12 | |
| 310885503 | Middle Passage | the middle portion of the triangular trade that brought African slaves to the Americas | 13 | |
| 310885504 | Amerindian | general term for indigenous people of North America | 14 | |
| 310885505 | Gold Coast | Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward. | 15 | |
| 310885506 | Magellan | This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world | 16 | |
| 310885507 | mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 17 | |
| 310885508 | Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) | 18 | |
| 310885509 | viceroyalty | a district or province governed by a viceroy. A viceroy is sent from another country to set up a government under the royal authority. | 19 | |
| 310885510 | caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. | 20 | |
| 310885511 | Triangle trade | the trading system between the Americas, England and Africa; Africa would give slaves and rum to the Americas, including the West Indies; America would offer timber, tobacco, fish, and flour; England would mainly process and ship back | 21 | |
| 310885512 | House of Burgesses | In Colonial Virginia this was a meeting of colonial representatives and representatives of the townspeople | 22 | |
| 310885513 | Council of the Indies | Created to curb the independent power of local colinial officials. | 23 | |
| 310885514 | Pizzarro | conquistadors who conqured the Incas and Peru | 24 | |
| 310885515 | Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) | 25 | |
| 310885516 | meztizos | People who are a mix of Europeans and Natives | 26 | |
| 310885517 | Conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americas | 27 | |
| 310885518 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Treaty to decide the Line of Demarcation between Spain and Portuguese territory in S. America | 28 | |
| 310885519 | Columbian exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | 29 | |
| 310885520 | indentured servitude | person who agreed to work for a colonial employer for a specified time in exchange for passage to america. | 30 | |
| 310885521 | New France | Name of French colony in Canada | 31 | |
| 310885522 | Coureurs de bois | a French or French-Indian trapper of North America, esp. of Canada | 32 | |
| 310885523 | Atahualpa | Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438) | 33 | |
| 310885524 | Vasco Da Gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. (p. 428) | 34 |
