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Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Conquistadores | Spanish explorers and conquerors who came to the New World seeking riches and were willing to use violent tactics toward Native Americans. |
| Hernán Cortés | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico. |
| Francisco Pizzaro | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Incas and conquered the West Coast of South America. |
| Encomienda System | Spanish government’s policy to give Native Americans as forced laborers to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. |
| Asiento System | Required Spanish colonists to pay a tax on each imported African slave brought into the Americas as a result of Native Americans dying off as a labor source. |
| Transatlantic Slave Trade | Capture, enslavement and transportation of millions of Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas to be used as a forced labor source. |
| Middle Passage | Dangerous and deadly transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the European colonies of the Americas as part of Triangular Trade. |
| Slavery | System of bondage in which an enslaved person has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold like property and forced to work for no pay. |