New Worlds: The Americas And Oceania Flashcards

1213794630	Atahualpa	Inca ruler	0
1213794631	Audiencias	Court system of lawyers that heard appeals against viceroys	1
1213794632	Chamorro	Indigenous peoples of the Mariana islands	2
1213794633	Conquistadores	Spanish adventurers who conquered Central and South America in the sixteenth century	3
1213794634	Criollos	Term for Spaniards born in Americas during the Spanish colonial period	4
1213794635	Cuzco	A town in the Andes, former capital of Inca empire	5
1213794636	Doña Marina	Congolese prophet and leader of Christian movement	6
1213794637	Encomienda	System that gave the Spanish settlers the right to compel the indigenous peoples of the Americas to work in the fields	7
1213794638	Engenho	Portuguese term for a sugar mill	8
1213794640	Fransico Pizarro	Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca empire	9
1213794641	Fur trade	North American fur trade from 17th c - 19th c	10
1213794642	Guaraní	Indigenous people/language of modern Paraguay and Bolivia	11
1213794643	Hacienda	Large Latin American estates	12
1213794644	Hernán Cortés	Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico	13
1213794645	Indentured labor	Poor people who would sell 7 years of their working loves	14
1213794646	Malintzin	Woman that acted as interpreter/guide for Cortés	15
1213794648	Mestizo/métis	Latin American term for children of SPanish and native parentage	16
1213794649	Mita system	Spanish colonial system in which colonized subjects had to work a prescribed number of days for overlords	17
1213794650	Motecuzoma II	Aztec emperor, overthrown by Cortéz	18
1213794651	Mulattoes	Person with mixed European and African ancestry	19
1213794652	Potosí	Spanish discovered silver in 1545 here	20
1213794653	Quechua	South American ethnic group of Peru, once ruled Inca empire	21
1213794654	Quiché	Mayan ethnic group of south-central Guatemala	22
1213794656	Taino	Caribbean people, first to come into contact with Christopher Columbus	23
1213794658	Viceroy	A ruler of a colony who exercises authority on behalf of a monarch	24
1213794659	Virgin of Guadalupe	Iconic image of the Virgin Mary	25
1213794661	Zambos	Individuals born of indigenous and African parents	26