chapter 25 vocab Flashcards

51094482	Hernan Cortez	a Spanish conquistador who landed on the east coast of what we now know as Mexico in 1519; he was looking for gold and glory, became friends with the Aztec emperor and later killed him and many Aztec nobels	0
51094483	Motecuzoma II	Second-to-last emperor of the Aztec empire; seized by Spanish forces and killed in 1520 skirmish between the Aztecs and Spanish; his nephew and son-in-law Cuauhtémoc became leader afterward	1
51094484	Fransisco Pizarro	Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533. (p. 438)	2
51094485	Atahualpa	Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)	3
51094486	Cabeza de vaca	adventurer who was a nobleman who joined an expedition of some 300 explorers who went from Hispaniola to investigate Florida in 1527	4
51094487	James cook	English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)	5
51094488	Mestizo	individuals of Spanish and native percentage	6
51094489	Encomienda	Indians were required to work a certain number of days for a land owner, but had their own land to work as well.	7
51094490	Taino	native americans who lived where columbus first landed	8
51094491	Engenho	represents a complex of land, labor, buildings, animals, capital, and technical skills	9
51094492	Indentured servants	People who could not afford passage to the colonies could become indentured servants. Another person would pay their passage, and in exchange, the indentured servant would serve that person for a set length of time (usually seven years) and then would be free.	10
51094493	Treaty of Tordesillas	Set the Line of Demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas.	11
51094494	Conquista Dores	A conqueror, especially one of the 16th-century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru.	12
51094495	Aboriginal Australians	had many distinct foraging and fishing societies; did not stay in one spot for very long	13
51094496	Repartimiento System	required adult male Native Americans to devote a set number of days of labor anually to Spanish economic enterprises. PROBLEM- abused workers due to sense of urgency and exploitation	14