AP World History - Unit 4: (Chapter 25) Flashcards

6238143616	Hernan Cortes	Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire	0
6238147251	Motecuzoma II	The ruler of tenochtitlan from 1502-1520. He was the first of the american rulers to come in contact with europeans, and was killed during the spanish conquest of the americas.	1
6238147844	Francisco Pizarro	Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire; he captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa and claimed the lands for Spain	2
6238148979	Atahualpa	Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish.	3
6238150013	Cabeza de Vaca	Spanish nobleman and explorer of Florida in the New World; one of four survivors of the 1527 expedition and ended up in the hands of indigenous people	4
6238153698	James Cook	English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).	5
6238154607	Mestizo	children of Spanish and native patronage	6
6238155432	Mita	Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.	7
6238156081	Encomienda	system that gave the Spanish settlers the right to compel the indigenous peoples of the Americas to work in the mines and fields	8
6238157166	Taino	a Caribbean tribe who were the first indigenous peoples from the Americas to come in contact with Christopher Columbus	9
6238158525	Conquitadores	Spanish adventurers like Cotes and Pizarro who conquered Central and South America in the sixteenth century	10
6238159694	Treaty of Tordesillas	divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile; divided the world between an imaginary lime 370 leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands	11
6238160407	Tupac Amaru rebellion	an uprising of native and mestizo peasants against the Bourbon reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru	12
6238161646	Engenho	Brazilian sugar mill	13
6238162879	Indentured labor Economic	labor source for plantations; wealthy planters would pay the European poor to sell a portion of their working lives, usually seven years, in exchange for passge	14
6238162880	Aboriginal Australians	indigenous people to Australia; nomadic foragers that had fleeting encounters with the Europeans	15