Popular revolt against Spanish colonial rule in New Granada (Colombia) in 1781; suppressed as a result of divisions among rebels.
What is the Comunero Revolt?
100
Capital of New Spain; built on ruins of Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
What is Mexico City?
100
European trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce.
What are factories?
100
Led a revolt in Peru known as the Tupac Amaru against bad government!
Who is Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui
100
Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas (16th-18th centuries); generally a traumatic experience for black slaves, although it failed to strip Africans of their culture.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
The holder of a grant of Indians who were required to pay tribute or provide labor. They were responsible for their integration into the church.
What is an encomendero?
200
This treaty signed in 1494 gave Brazil and the east to Portugal; everything west to Spain.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
First area of Spanish exploration and settlement; served as experimental region for nature of Spanish colonial experience.
What is the Caribbean?
200
Obeah, Candomble, and Vodun are all examples of this facet of African culture integrated into the Americas.
What is religion?
200
Production of this hit the high in the New World in 1596 and funded many things in Europe.
What is silver?
300
Whites born in the New World were referred to as this; they ranked just below peninsulares?
What is a Creole?
300
Leaser of Spanish expedition into northern frontier region of New Spain; entered what is now USA in search of mythical city of gold.
Who is Francisco Vazquez de Coronado?
300
Large heavily armed ships used to carry silver from New World to Spain, basis for convoy system utilized in Spain for transportation of bullion.
What are galleons?
300
Merchant guild of Seville; enjoyed virtual monopoly rights over goods shipped to America and handled much of the silver received in return.
What is a consulado?
300
Most important of early Portuguese trading factories in forest zone of Africa.
What is El Mina?
400
Grants of Indian laborers made to Spanish conquerors and settlers in Mesoamerica and South America; basis for earliest form of coerced labor in Spanish colonies.
What is the encomienda?
400
Spanish colonial possessions in Mesoamerica; included most of central Mexico; based on imperial system of Aztecs.
What is New Spain?
400
Spanish conquistador; conquered Araucanian Indians of Chile and established city of Santiago in 1541.
Who is Pedro de Valdivia?
400
Rural estates in Spanish colonies in the New World; produced agricultural products for consumers in America; basis of wealth and power for local aristocracy.
What is a hacienda?
400
Commerce linking Africa, the New World, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar and tobacco transported to Europe.
What is the triangle trade?
500
Conquistador turned priest, initiated the struggle for justice in the Caribbean
Who is De Las Casas?
500
Body within the Castilian government that issued all laws and advised king on all matters dealing with Spanish colonies of the New World
What is the Council of the Indies?
500
Body of laws collected in 1681 for Spanish possessions in New World; basis of law in Indies.
What is Recopilacion?
500
These people located in the area of large lakes in east/central Africa, specifically in Bunyoro established a ruling dynasty over Bantu peoples.
Who are the Luo?
500
This company was chartered in the 1660's to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants; supplied African slaves to colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia.