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Albaicín

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Key district in Granada

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Alcabala

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10% sales tax levied in Castile

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Alumbrados

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Otherwise known as the illuminists
They were mystics who downplayed the external manifestations of religion (including Church ceremonies) who attracted the attention of the Inquisition

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Arquebuses

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Type of firearm

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Audiencias

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High courts, in the new world they became apart of the government

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Auto da fé

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Means act of faith. Popularly used to refer to the act of burning those found guilty of heresy in the inquisition

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Barbary States

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North African states, e.g. Algiers, which professed the Islamic faith and collaborated with the Ottoman empire. They were also the place in which corsairs resided

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Corsairs

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Muslim Pirates e.g. Barbarossa

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Bureaucracy

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system of administration

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Caballero

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A knight belonging to the lower nobility

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Canon Law

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The Catholic Church’s laws used to govern the church and its members

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Church’s index of forbidden books

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represents the Church’s list of censored books, works that were considered to contain heretical ideas

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Comunidades

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refers to the communities and towns in castille which played a prominent role in the Comuneros revolt. They united a revolt under a rebel government (the Santa Junta de Comunidad)

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Conquistadores

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Explorers, entrepreneurs and soldiers who sought to conquer territory in the New World, such as Hernán Cortes and Francisco Pizarro

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Consulta

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Reports summarising the discussions of Council meetings, which would be relayed to the monarch

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Conversos

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New Christians, especially Jewish converts to Christianity

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Corregidor

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royal officials in Castilian towns

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Defenestrate

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Throwing an individual out of a window with a view of harming or killing them

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Despatches

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Documents or correspondence between representatives from different territories, especially those composed by ambassadors

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Diputación de Reyno

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The permanent committee of the Aragonses Cortes which oversaw the administration of revenues and promoted the provinces liberties.

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Ducats

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Unit of currency in Castille however accounting was mainly processed in maravedis (1 ducat = 375 maravedis)

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Elector

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The Holy Roman Emperors were elected by seven electors. They were the most politically influential princes within the Empire

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Encabezamiento

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System that assessed and organised the collection of taxes within localities

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Encomienda

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As applied in the New World, a system whereby some Spanish colonists became the official protectors of large groups of natives in return for tribute, normally in the form of free labour

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Excusado

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A tax upon properties in parishes granted by pope Pius V in 1967

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Galleasses

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Higher, larger and slower than regular galleys, galleases played a major role in the battle of lepanto on account of their firepower

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Germanía

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The brotherhood of rebels in Valencia during the early years of Charles V’s reign

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Hidalgo

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Lowest rank of the nobility

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Janissaries

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Elite armed forces of the Ottoman empire

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Juro

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Fixed sum paid by the crown in repayment of a loan

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Justiciar

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The officially appointed legal protector of Aragonese rights and liberties

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Landgrave

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Title of the rulers of certain territories within the holy roman empire, roughly equivalent to the count

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Letrado

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A lawyer with university degrees in law and 10 years experience

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Maravedí

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Unit of currency

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Mayorazgo

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Resisting the division of inheritance so that families retained ownership of land

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Millones

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A tax on meat, wine, oil and vinegar, voted in 1589 which eventually became permanent

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Moriscos

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New Christians, especially Muslims who convert to Christianity

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Observant Reform

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Reform of Catholic religious orders, motivated by the goal of returning to, and indeed, observing the original rules of each orders founders

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Ottomans

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Rulers and inhabitants of the powerful Muslim empire that stretched around the Mediterranean and into Europe in the Sixteenth century. Constantinople was it’s imperial capital

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Papal Bull

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document with the papal seal declaring the commands and policies of the papacy

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Papal fief

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territories handed out by the papacy in exchange for loyalty, the provision of funds and the protection of the church

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Poderes

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instructions that town representatives were expected to follow

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Polygot Bible

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A bible containing side-by-side versions of text in several different languages

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Prerogative

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Rights and privileges of a monarch

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Procurador

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Urban representatives in the Castilian Cortes

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Roman Law

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Codified law originating in ancient Rome that contrasted with local customary rules

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Sea Beggars

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Dutch Calvinists who were privateers and opposed spanish rule in the Netherlands

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Señorío

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Lordship associated with particular area

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Subsidies

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Taxes voted in the Cortes

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Tercio

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Elite Spanish regiment that used square formation combining use of arquebuses and pikes

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Council of Trent

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Reforming council of the Roman Catholic Church which opened in 1945 and concluded in 1963. The tridentine decrees focused on doctrines and the reform of discipline. In many countries and regions, they took decades to be implemented

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Tridentine

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Of or pertaining to the Council of Trent (e.g. decrees of reform)

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Viceroy

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Governor of a particular province (e.g. Aragon, Naples and Portugal (later)) to which Spanish rulers delegated their powers

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