Famous Namous
Classic Classes
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Thinkers
100
Famous explorer who sailed for Spain and thought he landed in India.
What is Christopher Columbus
100
This social class is made up of slaves who have purchased their freedom. Many became farm workers and laborers.
What is Free Blacks
100
I am someone who is forced to work in order to pay off a debt.
What is a peon
100
I am an official who rules in place of a king.
What is a Viceroy.
100
This institution influenced most of the education, services for the poor, and how hospitals were run.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
200
Spanish Explorer who sailed around the world in 1521. He ended up dying in the Philippines.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
200
This social class is made up of people who worked as farmhands on haciendas owned by peninsulares and creoles.
What is Native Americans.
200
This is a large plantation owned by people from Spain. They were usually placed on the best farmland.
What is a hacienda.
200
This is the term for a council that is established by Spain to govern the towns founded by Spanish settlers in Latin America.
What is a cabildo?
200
We were a better suited group used to work the plantation fields of Latin America. Most thought we had a better immune system and were very strong.
What are African Slaves
300
This Portuguese Explorer landed on the coast east coast of South America in what is now Brazil.
What is Pedro Cabral
300
Social class that is made up of people of mixed European and Indian descent.
What is Mestizos.
300
This is a knotted string that the Incas used to keep records.
What is a quipu?
300
This is the term to describe a Portuguese landowner who owned large tracks of land in Brazil.
What is Donatario?
300
Guns, Horses, diseases, and the luck of looking like the Gods.
What is the reasons why the Spanish were able to defeat the Aztecs/Incas?
400
This Spanish explorer led an expedition across the mountains and jungles of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean.
What is Vasco Balboa
400
This social class is made up of American-born dependents of Spanish settlers.
What is Creoles.
400
This term describes the movement of millions of people, foods, diseases, and ideas from Europe to Latin America.
What is the Columbian exchange?
400
This is a Latin American leader who seizes power and rules as a dictator.
What is a caudillo?
400
These people copied styles found in Spain and Portugal while others lived in homes made of adobe with straw roofs.
What is differences between the rich and poor of Latin America.
500
This former encomienda owner turned catholic friar who spoke out for better treatment of the Indians.
What is Bartolome de las Casas
500
This social class is made up of officials sent from Spain to ruls the colonies.
What is Peninsulares.
500
This a theory that a country's economic strength depended on increasing it's gold supply by exporting more goods than it imported.
What is Mercantilism.
500
This is a system of government in which a small elite has ruling power?
What is an oligarchy?
500
In order for a country to increase its gold supply the farmers need to have successful harvests.
What is the Importance of Mercantilism in Latin America.
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