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AP World History Summerville High School

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Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile   show
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Hispaniola   show
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encomienda   show
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show the holder of a grant of Indians who were required to pay tribute or provide labor; responsible for their integration into the church.  
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show Dominican friar who supported peaceful conversion of Native American population, opposed forced labor, and advocated Indian rights.  
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show led expedition to Mexico in 1519; defeated Aztec empire and established Spanish colonial rule.  
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Moctezuma II   show
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show capital of New Spain; built on ruins of Tenochtitlan.  
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New Spain   show
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show led Spanish expedition into the southwestern United States in search of gold.  
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show Spanish conqueror of Araucanian Indians of Chile; established city of Santiago in 1541.  
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mita   show
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Potosí   show
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show greatest mercury deposit in South America; used in American silver production.  
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show rural agricultural and herding estates; produced goods for consumers in America; basis for wealth and power of the local aristocracy.  
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show merchant guild of Seville with a virtual monopoly over goods shipped to Spanish America; handled much of the silver shipped in return.  
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show large, heavily armed ships used to carry silver from New World colonies to Spain; basis of convoy system used for transportation of bullion.  
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show concluded in 1494 between Castile and Portugal; clarified spheres of influence and rights of possession; in the New World, Brazil went to Portugal and the rest to Spain.  
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show university-trained lawyers from Spain; basic personnel of the Spanish colonial bureaucratic system.  
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Recopilación   show
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Council of the Indies   show
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viceroyalties   show
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viceroys   show
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show royal courts of appeals established in Spanish New World colonies; staffed by professional magistrates who made and applied laws.  
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz   show
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Pedro Alvares Cabral   show
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show areas along the Brazilian coast granted to Portuguese nobles for colonial development.  
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Paulistas   show
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show Brazilian region where gold was discovered in 1695; a gold rush followed.  
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show Brazilian port used for mines of Minas Gerais; became capital in 1763.  
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show Spanish American social system based on racial origins; Europeans on top, mixed races in the middle, Indians and African slaves at the bottom.  
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show Spanish-born residents of the New World.  
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show people of European ancestry born in Spanish New World colonies; dominated local economies; ranked socially below peninsulares.  
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amigos del país   show
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show (1702–1713); wide-ranging war fought between European nations; resulted in the installation of Philip of Anjou as king of Spain.  
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Charles III   show
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show Spanish Minister of the Indies and chief architect of colonial reform; moved to eliminate creoles from the upper colonial bureaucracy; created intendants for local government.  
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Marquis of Pombal   show
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show a popular revolt against Spanish rule in New Granada in 1781; suppressed as a result of government concessions and divisions among rebels.  
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show Mestizo leader of Indian revolt in Peru; supported by many in the lower social classes; revolt failed because of Creole fears of real social revolution.  
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