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Chapter 27 - Europe
Antonio
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hacienda | a huge farm of plantation in colonial latin america |
| Viceroy | Representative who ruled one of Spain's provinces in the Americas in the king's name |
| Encomienda | a system in which Native Americans had to work for European colonists and accept their religion |
| Peninsulars | a person born in spain or portugal and belonging to the highest social class of people in colonial latin america |
| Creoles | A person with Spanish or Portuguese parents who was born in the Americas. Creoles were part of the middle class in colonial Latin America. |
| Mestizos | a person of european america indian decent living in the spanish colonies |
| Mulattoes | A person with both African and European background who lived in colonial Latin America. |
| Indians | (Native Americans) |
| The Church | The largest building in a Latin American town |
| Racism | a feeling of being better than other people because of their race or color |
| White Man’s Burden | the racist idea that Europeans "had" to "help" the "uncivilized Africans" with their notion of “superiority” |
| Dr. Livingstone | a Scottish doctor and famous missionary who explored Africa, healing the sick and helping the poor |
| Horrible Effects of the Slave Trade | 1. Harsh on Africans 2. Whole communities were destroyed 3. Families torn apart |
| Triangular Trade | a system in which traders exchanged goods for slaves, sold the slaves for plantation products, and sold the products in Europe |
| Middle Passage | the part in which enslaved people were shipped across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas |
| Indentured Servants | someone who agreed to work for a period of time (usually 7 years) in exchange for passage to the new world. |