Chapter 24 Vocab Flashcards
Tainos
Mexican indigenous people
Donna marina
Known as the traitor because she helped Cortes
Encomienda
A system of developing land
Conquistadores
Spanish conqueres
Hernan Cortez
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
Montecuzoma/Montezuma
The last Mexican Aztec emperor
Francisco Pizarro
Conqueror of the Inca empire
Atahualpa
The last inca emperor
Viceroy
A ruler in a colony who answers to a monarch
Audiencias
An applet court in the Spanish empire
Treaty of Tordesillas
A treaty that gave Portugal possession of the eastern side of the world and Spain the western
Alvares de Cabral
A Portuguese navigator
French colonies
Places colonized by the French
English colonies
Places colonized by the English
Mestizo societies
Societies of mixed Spanish and native peoples
Peninsulares
Spanish people residing in North America
Criollos
A person for south or Central America
Zacatecas
A state in northern central Mexico
Potosi
A silver mining city
Quinto
One seventh of silver taken by the royals of Spain
Hacienda
A large estate of plantation
Engenho
A Portuguese sugar mill
Tobacco
A crop grown in Virginia and Carolina
Indentured servitude
Workers who would be brought over to the Americas and work to pay for their ways over
Virgin of Guadalupe
The Virgin Mary
Australia
A country colonized by British prisoners
Guam
A State under Spanish control
