Colonies and Geography
The name of one of Spain's provinces that is current day Mexico.
New Spain
The top layer of society
Spanish Born
Missions taught Native Americans how to do these two things.
Read and write.
The two crops that made the highest impact because they were nutritious.
Potatoes and corn
A grant of Native American labor.
Encomienda
Province of Spain in South America
Peru
The people with the least power and fewest rights in Spanish Colonial America.
Native Americans and Enslaved Africans
Native Americans were upset when the Spanish tried to replace this.
Traditions and religion.
Raw materials and living things are moved from this hemisphere to that hemisphere.
Eastern & Western Hemispheres
Settlements that included a church, a town, and farmlands.
Mission
Spain built these to allow faster movement of goods.
New Roads
People of Spanish descent who were born in the colonies.
Creoles
Some Natives rebelled against Spanish rule by burning churches. Others did this.
Ran away
The European diet started to depend on this.
American Crops.
Large farms that raised cash crops.
Plantation
Name the two Capital cities of the major Provinces.
Mexico City and Lima
People of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.
Mestizos
Plantations started because of the demand for this.
Sugar
As people moved from one hemisphere to the other, this was blended in the process.
Culture
The Columbian Exchange was a movement of living things such as plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
Columbian Exchange
Materials that were transported efficiently to the coast and then to Spain.
Gold and silver
The Spaniards made sure that people with this background held power in the colonies.
Spanish
Another way to say that crops were sent somewhere out of the country.
Export(ed)
As Europeans came to America, they brought with them germs that caused diseases such as smallpox, measles, and this virus that has its own season each year.
Influenza
Top official who ruled in the kings name.
Viceroy