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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| council of the indies | crown imposed buerocracy that basically made descisions for the new world. based in spain, response to growing colonial power. |
| viceroy | basically king type figure of one of the viceoryaltys, new spain and peru. |
| who lead the church in new world | archbishop |
| what were two positives o fthe beurocratic system of the spanish indies? | conflicts rarley stalemated bc there was always a hgher level to sen dsomething to. also all groups had access to a levl of beaurocracy and most local officals still had say |
| mercantalist theory | econ activity shouold gain power and prestige. based on trade, more exports than imports and also gold and silver |
| what di dthe new laws do? | basically abolished indigenous slavery for a tiome and brought natives out from conquistadors and under crown protection. oppresion still existed just not legallu |
| what was the caste system | due to the many diff types of ppl natives, peninsulares, conquistadors etc, system developed of class based on race. |
| machismo | cult of masculinity |
| asiento | spanish corwn allowed for people to trade african slaves to colonys. |
| audencias | town councils, local govt |
| peninsulares | people born of spanish decent who were born in spain. |
| banderainres | portugesues slave hunters who r like cowboys kind of |
| what happened in brazil in the 1700s that changed the econ | gold rush |
| what was a continued class conflict of both portugese and spansih colonies | conflict bt born in euro vs born in ameircas. |
| indtendencia system | basically spain centralizing power and replaced corrigidores with nitendents/local govt responsible to cron. decreased colonists power increased crown infleunce |
| cabildo | local govt where creole population found power. |
| how did charles establish more power for the crown during the late 1700s? | removed jesuits, started militia started intendency system. |
| decree of free trade | any colony port could trade with spain or each other directly |
| tupac amaru 2 | lead indigenous uprising |
| what was the differenc ebt the uprisings in teh 1780s vs the actual revolution in new spain? | idnian leadership, prtesting within system not against it |
| what made new spain mad innitially | new king they didnt like |
| how did creoles undermine viceroys power during the english invasion | creoles responded, the viceroys did not |
| simon bolivar | guy who vowe dti free veneuela from spanish rule. nicknamed th eliberator. |
| why in vreif were jesuits expelled form new spain | had to much power and money that wasnt seeing the corwn. |
| what did bartalemo de las casas do that had not been done before | told the history of the indigenous. became one of teh first humanitarian lawyers of all time. preist |
| what was unique historically about the debate at valladolid? | it was the only time a colonizing nation organized a formal inquiry into the justice fof teh methods to extend their empire. |
| juan gines de sepulvuda | argued that natives were not human bc no science laws private property etc. said it was responsibility of spiain to make them civilized. mationalists, never went to the ameircas |
| what was the outcome of the debate at vallodolid | nothing. no descision was made |
| what was the thesis of sepulvuda | that war against indians is the just and preliminary to their conversion. believed in natural hierarchy that was condition fo human society. nature of slaves and masters |
| what were motivations for europeans | gold glory god |
| repartmiento ssyetm | came from teh mita system. distribuetd slaves to work for a set period of time each year. paid poorly. took power from crown |
| who beenefitd from the encomienda system | royals. set up serfdom system |
| what is imporant about the spanish attitude towards policy | very very based on legal shit |
| censos | type of loan that took a portion of land and said that profits would goi to church/run by chruch |
| what did las casas do when he realized slavery was bad | freed his slaves and quit being an encomender |
| what is the central theme of las casas'argyments | that indiigenous people are humans and the mistreatement of them is a sin |
| requermiento | document read to indegenous people asking them to convert, if they didnt say yes they would be attacked. was not translated and lead to the enslavement of teh people |
| what did sepulvuda believe about indegeonus people | that they had an ¨inherently slavish nature¨/ were supposed to be slaves. |
| debt servitude | on haciendas slavers perpousfully put ppl into debt in order to make them keep working/tied to land |
| what was suupposed to be true of viceroys | disconnected from community. owned no land had no friedns, couldnt profit of the system. |
| examples of corruption in viceroys | sold positions to highest bidder, apoints people who wont challenge him |
| corruption in corregedores | gets paid a fuck ton of money and then goes into debt bc he had to get the positionand forces his people to pay it off, appointed judges so didnt get tried, threated many into silence. |
| obedezco pero no cumplo | these laws are obeyed not enofrced; basically no one actually followed the new laws |
| tithles | ten oercent payment to chruch |