AP world history "the earth and its peoples" chapter 17
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| 299781458 | Bartolome de Las Casa | first bishop of Chiapas, he devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindians but he ended up causing more pain for the African slaves. | 0 | |
| 299781459 | Marquis of Pombol | aggressive period of reform in Brazil occurred during the ministry of the marquis of Pombal. | 1 | |
| 299781460 | Tupac Amaru II | Member of Inca aristocracy who led a rebellion against Spanish authorities in Peru in 1780-1781. He was captured and executed with his wife and other members of his family. | 2 | |
| 299781461 | Brazil | largest Portuguese speaking country. | 3 | |
| 299781462 | creoles | In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. . | 4 | |
| 299781463 | encomienda | A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the Amerindians. | 5 | |
| 299781464 | Hidalgos | working class tradespeople who came to america in search of wealth and prestige | 6 | |
| 299781465 | House of Burgesses | elected assembly in colonial Virginia, created in 1618 | 7 | |
| 299781466 | Middle Passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade | 8 | |
| 299781467 | Spanish Armada | the Spanish fleet that attempted to invade England, ending in disaster, due to the raging storm in the English Channel as well as the smaller and better English navy led by Francis Drake. This is viewed as the decline of Spains Golden Age, and the rise of England as a world naval power. | 9 | |
| 299781468 | indentured servant | Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America | 10 | |
| 299781469 | Iroquois confederacy | An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722, six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English, it dominated W. New England. | 11 | |
| 299781470 | mestizo | person of mixed American Indian and European ancestry | 12 | |
| 299781471 | mulatto | a person of mixed african and european ancestry | 13 | |
| 299781472 | new france | French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608. New France fell to the British in 1763. | 14 | |
| 299781473 | pilgrims | Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands. | 15 | |
| 299781474 | potosi | located in bolivia, one of the richest silver mining centers and most populated city in colonial Spanish America | 16 | |
| 299781475 | puritans | Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization. | 17 | |
| 299781476 | viceroy | a governor or ruler exercising authority on behalf of a sovereign in a province or colony | 18 | |
| 299781477 | Columbia exchange | the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the America's and the rest of the world following columbus's voyages. | 19 |
