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Dweller

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Someone who dwells in a particular place

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Cimarron

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Fugitive slave (maroon)

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Punitive expedition

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Of military assault with the purpose of punishing a country or group of people

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River bed

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The channel through which a river flows, The ground on the bottom of the river

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4
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Substance farming

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Growing just enough food to feed immediate family

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5
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Agrarian

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Related to farmers and farming

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6
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Bozal

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A slave who has recently arrived in a country, directly from Africa

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Islet

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A small island

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Plantation

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A large farm especially in the tropics or subtropics devoted primarily to a single crop such as sugarcane and cotton

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9
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Corsair

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Pirate… Argh me MATIES!!!

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10
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Magistrate

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The spaniards king has a viceroy Who lived in santo Domingo, the highest authority in PR was the “alcalde mayor” or magistrate

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11
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1st governor

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Juan Ponce de Leon

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Diego Colon

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Viceroy, lived in alcazande de colon (st. Dom.)

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Diego Colon removed Juan Ponce de Leon and appointed…

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Juan Ceron as magistrate and Miguel Diaz as alguacil mayor

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14
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1510

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The king gives the Ponce his title back

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15
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PR’s natural resources

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Good and Taino labor

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16
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16th century

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Mining gold in riverbeds, and in Savannas or plains near the river

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17
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Rivers that produced gold

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Northern coast:

  • Rio Grande de Loiza
  • La plata
  • cibuco
  • streams flowing from la sierra to Luquillo
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18
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Not all farmers were encomenderos, some were…

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Supervisor and foremen

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19
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Mining workers were organized into crews:

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  • digs
  • wash the gravel
  • separate the gold
  • Carry gold to collection areas
  • melt/mold
  • send to Spain
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20
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1/3 workers were…

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Women

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21
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Bateas

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Instrument to separate the gold, gold was heavy so gold dust and nuggets would sink to the bottom

22
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Some tainos were paid for their work with…

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Cheap clothing, alpar gatas (sandals) since their nudity offended the spaniards.

23
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During this time many tainos died of…

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Malnutrition since the tainos kept most of the food harvested

24
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Spaniards brought in ___ to replace the ___ population

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Africans, Taino

25
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Many slaves worked at ___ and ___

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Plantations, refineries

26
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The first slaves brought to ___ worked in the ___ mines

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PR, gold

27
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The 1530 ___ stated that Africans were a ___ in PR’s population

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Census, majority

28
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Most Africans brought in the ___ were ___ , they were believed to be ___ and better suited for the work in the ___ and ___ plantations

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16th century, men, stronger, mines, sugar cane

29
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From 16th to 18th century slaves were branded with ___ ___, it was the mark of the ___

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Hot, iron, gov.

30
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The mark branded into slaves was called ___ , and it was branded in the ___ or ___ to prove the slaves were ___

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Carimbo, face, back, legal

31
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The slaves were sold at an ___

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Auction

32
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The slaves worked from ___ to ___ during zafra, when ___ was harvested

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Sun up, sun down, sugarcane

33
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The slaves had to…

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  • Cut the sugar cane
  • Carry it to the mill
  • remove hard cutter layer
  • ground the stalks
  • boil the juice
  • stir it
  • pour it into containers to store it
  • transported to oxcarts (to be transported to Europe)
34
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Thousands of Africans died of ___,___ and other causes in the plantations and refineries

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Exhaustion, diseases

35
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Maroons and slave rebellions:

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1514: some Africans and tainos took part in an uprising, 4 rebels were hanged with trial.
1531: another revolt

36
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Several bozzales, ___ rebelled and killed several ___

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Newly arrived slave, spaniards

37
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Gov. ___ subdued the rebelion

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Francisco Manuel de Londo

38
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The colonist panicked, the municipal council of ___ considered asking the ___ of ___ to Prohibit the importation of ____ in PR

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San Juan, king, Spain, Africans

39
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The did not request the ban on the importation of Africans because…

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They needed slaves

40
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1531

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The king prohibited slaves from the Wolof people to be imported to PR

41
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Slaves were more likely to ___ and ___ than to rebel

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Run, hide

42
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Maroons ___ in the forest and some joined the ___

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Hid, tainos

43
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Maroons would form small ___ and raid the spaniards for ___,___ and other items

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Communities,food, clothing

44
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Spaniards orginized ___ on the maroons

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Ambushes

45
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Once the maroons were captured, they were…

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Returned to their owners, or turned over to the authorities and subject to physical punishment

46
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In the eyes of their ___, maroons were a lost ___

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Masters, investment

47
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Maroons would ___ from farms and ___ on other slaves to rebel

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Steal, incite

48
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Changes in population:

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1508: 50,000 to 70,000 tainos
1530: only 4,170 people living in PR, 1,535 tainos, 333 spaniards, 2304 Africans, women were a minority and without them there would be no births

49
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Not only did the tainos and Africans fall but..

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Once the gold was finished, the spaniards were left in ruins

50
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These who were obtaining ___ from the mines had to pay a high ___

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Gold, almofarizasgo

51
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Almofarizasgo

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Customs tot items leaving or entering PR

52
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Alcabala

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IVU

53
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The crown asked for ___ of the gold found! this was why many left to Mexico in ___ and Peru in ___

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20%, 1520’s,1530’s