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| 5915545781 | Audiencia | hearing (trial) | 0 | |
| 5915545782 | Macio Serra | 1 | ||
| 5915545783 | Bartolomeo de las Casas | 16th Century Spanish Historian, Dominican Friar, "Protector of the Indians;" opposed atrocities by colonizers on Indigenous people | 2 | |
| 5915545785 | New Granada | Country created when South Americans under the leadership of Simon Bolivar, won their independence from Spain. Viceroyalty that included Columbia and Ecuador | 3 | |
| 5915545786 | Consulado | Merchant guild of Seville; enjoyed virtual monopoly rights over goods shipped to America and handled much of the silver received in return. | 4 | |
| 5915545787 | Encomendero | The holder of a grant of Indians who were required to pay a tribute or provide labor. The encomendero was responsible for their integration into the church. | 5 | |
| 5915545788 | Encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it | 6 | |
| 5915545789 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541). | 7 | |
| 5915545790 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) | 8 | |
| 5915545791 | Huancavelica | Location of greatest deposit of mercury in South America; aided in American silver production; linked with Potosí. | 9 | |
| 5915545792 | Jesuits | Members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe. | 10 | |
| 5915545793 | Jose de Galvez | Spanish minister of the Indies and chief architect of colonial reform; moved to eliminate Creoles from upper bureaucracy of the colonies; created intendants for local government | 11 | |
| 5915545794 | Letrados | University-trained lawyers from Spain in the New World; juridical core of Spanish colonial bureaucracy; exercised both legislative and administrative functions. | 12 | |
| 5915545795 | Paulistas | Backswoodsmen from São Paulo, Brazil; penetrated Brazilian interior in search of precious metals during the 17th century. | 13 | |
| 5915545796 | Rio de la Plata | estuary where the Parana River empties into the Atlantic Ocean | 14 | |
| 5915545797 | Bernardino de Sahagun | spanish missionary who helped to preserve the Mexican history before the arrival the spanish/ things such as language, customs, literature, and history | 15 | |
| 5915545798 | 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. | 16 | |
| 5915545799 | Treaty of Utrecht | The treaty that ended the War of Spanish Succession and stopped Louis XIV's attempts to gain more land for France, defending the balance of power. | 17 | |
| 5915545800 | War of the Spanish | The last of Louis XIV's wars involving the issue of succession to the Spanish throne and culminating in the Peace of Utrecht (1701-1713) | 18 | |
| 5915545801 | Succession | Order in which the office of president is filled if it becomes vacant before an election | 19 | |
| 5915545802 | Sociedad de castas | American social system based on racial origins; Europeans or whites at top, black slaves or Native Americans at bottom, mixed races in middle. | 20 | |
| 5915545803 | Casa de contraction | was a government agency of the Spanish Empire, existing from the 16th to the 18th centuries, which attempted to control all Spanish exploration and colonization. | 21 | |
| 5915545804 | Rio de Janeiro | Brazilian port used for mines of Minas Gerais; importance grew with gold strikes; became colonial capital in 1763. | 22 | |
| 5915545805 | Recopilación | Body of laws collected in 1681 for Spanish possessions in New World; basis of law in the Indies | 23 | |
| 5915545806 | Potosi | Located in Bolivia, one of the richest silver mining centers and most populous cities in colonial Spanish America. | 24 | |
| 5915545807 | haciendas | Large Spanish colonial estates usually owned by wealthy families but worked by many peasants | 25 | |
| 5915545808 | Caribbean | First era of Spanish exploration and settlement, served as experimental region for nature of Spanish colonial experience. encomienda system of colonial management initiated here. | 26 | |
| 5915545809 | Pedro de Valdivia | Spanish conquistador; conquered Araucanian Indians of Chile and established city of Santiago in 1541. | 27 | |
| 5915545810 | Pedro Cieza de Leon | A Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru; known primarily for his history and description of Peru | 28 | |
| 5915545811 | Sancho Panza | Who is quixotes foil (opposite) | 29 | |
| 5915545812 | Taino people | People who were enslaved and forced to mine for gold and convert to Christianity, or else they'd be treated cruelly | 30 | |
| 5915545813 | Santiago | Capital of Chile | 31 | |
| 5915545814 | Mexico City | Capital of New Spain; built on ruins of Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. | 32 | |
| 5915545815 | galleons | Large, heavily armed ships used to carry silver from New World colonies to Spain; basis for convoy system utilized by Spain for transportation of bullion. | 33 | |
| 5915545816 | Habsburg Monarchy | for 60 years (1580-1640) Spain and Portugal ruled by the same monarchs, a situation that promoted their cooperation and gave the Habsburg kings of Spain and Portugal a worldwide empire | 34 | |
| 5915545817 | Juan Gines de Sepulveda | The Spanish scholar who argued that Indians were not fully human and thus enslaving them was acceptable. | 35 | |
| 5915545819 | Minas Gerais | Region of Brazil located in mountainous interior were gold strikes were discovered in 1695; became location for gold rush. | 36 | |
| 5915545820 | peninsulares | Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class. | 37 | |
| 5915545821 | corregidores | royal officials of Spain who governed towns and set up law courts | 38 | |
| 5915545822 | Diego de Landa | 16h Century missionary. Wrote about the maya providing us with valuable resources; unfortunately, he also burned all but 4 of the Maya's written works | 39 | |
| 5915545823 | creoles | Descendents of Spanish-born but born in Latin America; resented inferior social, political, economic status. | 40 | |
| 5915545824 | enlightened despotism | Absolute rule justifies not on grounds of heredity or divine right. Secular in outlook and justification, as in Frederick the Great's self-description as "the first servant of the state." Used to rationalize and organize the state from the top down during the Age of the Enlightenment. Other example is Joseph II of Austria | 41 | |
| 5915545825 | Marquis of Pombal | Prime minister of Portugal from 1755 to 1776; acted to strengthen royal authority in Brazil; expelled Jesuits; enacted fiscal reforms and established monopoly companies to stimulate the colonial economy. | 42 | |
| 5915545826 | Tupac Amaru | Mestizo leader of Indian revolt in Peru; supported by many in the lower social classes; revolt failed because of creole fears of real social revolution. | 43 | |
| 5915545827 | capitancies | Administrative positions in the Portuguese government | 44 | |
| 5915545828 | comunero revolt | One of popular revolts against Spanish colonial rule in New Granada (Colombia) in 1781; suppressed as a result of divisions among rebels. | 45 | |
| 5915545829 | Antilles | Two chains of islands in the Caribbean, the Lesser and Greater Antilles. | 46 | |
| 5915545830 | Granada | The last surviving Islamic outpost in Spain was | 47 | |
| 5915545831 | Hispaniola | First island in Caribbean settled by Spaniards; settlement founded by Columbus on second voyage to New World; Spanish base of operations for further discoveries in New World. | 48 | |
| 5915545832 | New Spain | -Spain's tightly controlled empire in the New World | 49 | |
| 5915545833 | Phillip of Anjou | Became king of Spain as result of War of Spanish Sucession grandson of Louis 14 (settled by Peace of Utrech) | 50 | |
| 5915545834 | potosi | Located in Bolivia, one of the richest silver mining centers and most populous cities in colonial Spanish America. | 51 | |
| 5915545835 | Cuzco | The capital city of the Incan Empire, Located in present-day Peru | 52 |
