AP WORLD HISTORY CHAPTER 25 Flashcards

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122266409	Hernan Cortes	Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)	0
122266410	Moctezuma II	Last Aztec emperor, overthrown by the Spanish conquistador Cortes	1
122266411	Francisco Pizarro	Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)	2
122266412	James Cook	English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)	3
122266413	Mestizo	The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed Amerindian and European descent. (p. 484)	4
122266414	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	5
122266415	Taino	Native Americans from island of San Salvador	6
122266416	Criolles	middle class of New Spain	7
122266417	Zambos	People of mixed Native American and African descent. Lowest tier of social class, with no rights whatsoever.	8
122266418	Hacienda	a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries	9
122266419	Peninsulares	Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class	10
122266420	Viceroy	showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller	11
122266421	Conquistadores	Spanish 'conqueror' or soldier in the New World. They were searching for the 3-G's: gold, God, and glory.	12
122266422	Treaty of Tordesillas	Set the Line of Demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas.	13
122266423	Repartimiento system	colonial forced labor system imposed upon the indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines.	14
122266424	Indentured servants	colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years	15
122266425	Aboriginal Australians	had many distinct foraging and fishing societies; did not stay in one spot for very long	16