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| 312276940 | Tainos | Inhabited the islands of the Caribbean | 0 | |
| 312276941 | Encomienda | The institution of forced labor | 1 | |
| 312276942 | Peru & Mexico | Had vast supplies of silver | 2 | |
| 312276943 | Sugar & tobacco | French settlers in the Caribbean hoped to produce these valuable cash crops | 3 | |
| 312276944 | Several million slaves from west africa | European settlers needed workers to operate their estate and began to import | 4 | |
| 312276945 | Hernan Cortes | Conquistador in Mexico | 5 | |
| 312276946 | Francisco pizzaro | In peru led expeditions of conquest which led to the toppling of the aztec and incan empires | 6 | |
| 312276947 | The spanish crown | By 1570 developed a formal policy of control and administration of justice for formerly conquistadore-run territories | 7 | |
| 312276948 | Audiencas | Review courts staffed with university educated lawyers to review viceroys decisions and evaluate performances | 8 | |
| 312276949 | Brazil | Portugal est. An imperial realm here as a result if the 1494 treaty of tordesillas | 9 | |
| 312276950 | Criollos or creoles | Individuals born of iberian parents in the americas second on the social hierarchy | 10 | |
| 312276951 | Peninsulares | Term applied to migrants born in europe were at the top of the social hierarchy | 11 | |
| 312276952 | Zambos | Born of indigenous and african parents | 12 | |
| 312276953 | Mestizos or mulattoes | Born of portuguese and african parents | 13 | |
| 312276954 | Mita | Labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion; all communities were expected to contribute; an essential aspect of Inca imperial control. | 14 | |
| 312276955 | Quinto | One-fifth: amount the Spanish crown was to receive of all precious metals mined in the Americas. | 15 | |
| 312276956 | Encomienda system | system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills. | 16 | |
| 312276957 | Pueblo revolt | 1680, revolt of indigenous laborers led by shaman named Pope'. killed colonists and priests and got Spanish out of modern-day New Mexico for 12 years | 17 | |
| 312276958 | Tupac amaru rebellion | rebellion of Peru natives in 1780; 60 thousand natives revolted in the name of Tupac Amaru for two years killing thousands of people | 18 | |
| 312276959 | Engenho | Sugar mill | 19 | |
| 312276960 | Felipe guaman poma de ayla | Sent a 1200 page letter with four hundred illustrations to king philip the third of spain detailing the abuse of indigenous peoples | 20 | |
| 312276961 | Metis | inhabitants of the area around Red River. They were of mixed blood-French and Scottish fur traders and natives | 21 | |
| 312276962 | Pero alvares cabral | After this voyage the portuguese king decided to grant these new brazil landsto his nobles | 22 | |
| 312276963 | Colonial assemblies | American representative assemblies wished to limit the powers of crown officials (following Glorious Revolution). Gradually won control of taxation and loca appointments. Their rising power created an elitist, not democratic, pol system. | 23 | |
| 312276964 | Northwest passage to asia | England, French, and the Netherlands hoped to discover. | 24 | |
| 312276965 | Treaty of tordesillas | a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. | 25 | |
| 312276966 | Viceroyalities | 2 major divisions, one on lima, one on mexico city | 26 |
