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AP world history
AP world history review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Francisco Pizarro | Led his men on a false start to the conquest of the Inca Empire, which was already weakened by a long civil war; 200 Spaniards and Indian allies conquered |
| Hernan Cortes | Killed Montezuma II then had to fell the Aztec Empire and Tenochtitlan was replaced by Mexico City |
| Huancavelica | The Spanish discovery of a mountain of mercury at Huancavelica in Peru aided American silver production |
| Jesuits | carried out widespread conversion on the Indians, establishing churches in the towns and villages of sedentary Indians and setting up missions in frontier areas where nomadic peoples were forced to settle |
| Jose de Galvez | moved to remove Creoles from upper bureaucracy of the colonies |
| letrados | university-trained lawyers from Spain the staffed the Spanish empire great bureaucratic system |
| Paulistas | Backwoodsmen from Sao Paulo in Brazil; penetrated Brazilian interior in search of precious metals during 17th century |
| Treaty of Utrecht | result of the War of Succession, recognition of a Bourbon family as rulers of Spain; allowed French merchants to operate in Seville and permitted England to trade slaves in Spanish America |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | between Castile and Portugal clarified the spheres of influence and right of possession of the 2 kingdoms |
| War of the Spanish succession | resulted form bourbon familys succession to spanish thronein 1701; ended by treaty of utrecht in 1713, resulted in recognition of bourbons loss of some lands grants of commercial right to english and french |
| sociedad de castas | american social system based on racial origins european or whites at top black slaves or native americans at bottom mixed races in middle |
| casa de contractacion or las casa y audience de indias | the house of trade in the indies was a gov. agency under the spanish empire form the 16-18th centuries which attempted to control all spanish exploration and colonization |
| rio de janeiro | brazilian port; clsoe to mines fo minas gerais; importance grew with gold strikes; became colonial capital in 1763 |
| recopilacion (1681) | codified the laws iunto the basis for gov. in the colonies |
| potosi | in upper peru was the largest mine of all, producing about 80% of all the Peruvian silver |
| haciendas | rural estates in spanish colonies in the new world produced agricultural proudcts from consumers in america. the basis of wealth and power for the local aristocracy in many regions |
| bernardino de sahagun (1499-1590) | became an expert in the Nanuatl language and composed a bilingual encyclopedia of Aztec culture |
| rio de la plata | the the west indies the bourbons new viceroyalties were created in New Granada (1739) and the rio de plata (1778) to provided better administration and defense to the growing population of these regions |
| caribbean | the caribbean experience served spain as a model for its actions elsewhere in the americas |
| pedro de valdivia | spanish conquistador; conquered araucanian indians of Chile and established city of Santiago in 1541 |
| Cuzco | the inca capital of cuzco, high in the andes, fell in 1533 but the spanish decided to build their major city Lima closer to the coast |
| sancho de monco | as early as 1619, Sancho de Moncada wrote that "the poverty of Spain resulted form the discovery of the Indies" |
| mancio serra | joined francisco pizzaro who embarked on the conquest of the inca empire |
| tiano people | a member of an aboriginal indian people of the west indies, extinct since the 16th century |
| Santiago | pedro de valdivia from the americas conquered the tenacious araucanians of central Chile and set up the city of Santiago in 1514 |
| audiencias | royal court of appeals established int eh spanish colonies of new world; there were 10 in each viceroyalty; part of colonial administration systeml staffed by professional magistrates |
| bartolome de las casas | former conqueror and encomendero, dominican priest, bishop of Chiapas. defender of the indians and critic of spanish brutality-presented the country opinion against sepulveda |
| consulado | merchant guild of seville, enjoyed virtual monopoly rights over goods shipped to america and handled much of the silver recieved in return |
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