Viceroyalty | | Established by the Catholic church to convert Native Americans to Catholocism. |
Sugar | | Catholic missionary who claimed the Spanish, "...Are drones who suck the honey...made by the poor bees, the Indians." |
Haciendas | | These people--like Cortes--were the top layer of Spanish society. |
TwentyMillion | | The most important cash crop in the Spanish colonies. |
Columbus | | Peruvian Native American--wrote King Philip III to complain about Spanish abuse of natives. |
Creoles | | Top official in each viceroyalty--ruled in the king's name. |
NewLaws | | A grant of Native American labor to work estates. |
BartolomeDeLasCasas | | The lowest level of Spanish society. |
NativeAmericans | | Issued by Spanish king in 1542--called for gradual release of Native slaves. |
Religion | | Led a Pueblo Indian revolt against Santa Fe in 1680. |
HuamanPoma | | Native Americans learned this in missionaries (no "and"). |
Smallpox | | Second level of Spanish society--Spanish descent but born in the colonies. |
ReadWrite | | Native Americans were angry that Spanish missions were trying to replace this. |
NewSpain | | Movement of living things between hemispheres. |
SpanishBorn | | Each province--New Spain and Peru--were called this. |
Encomienda | | Third level of Spanish society--mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry. |
Viceroy | | These helped Spain to control its colonies because soldiers could move fast. |
Missions | | One germ passed to Native Americans through the Columbian Exchange. |
Roads | | Large farms that raised cash crops--Native Americans were forced to work. |
FrayToribioDeBenavente | | Two crops brought back to Europe that helped feed the starving populations. |
ColumbianExchange | | The estimated number of deaths in Mexico from European Disease (spell it out). |
Mestizos | | A Catholic priest who gave up his encomienda, Native American slaves, and fought against the abuse of Natives. |
Plantations | | This and "Peru" were the two provinces of the Spanish Empire. |
Pope | | He was the first to bring sugar plants to Hispanola in 1493. |
PotatoesCorn | | One native group forced to work sugar plantations in the Americas. |
Taino | | Large farms--usually worked by Native Americans to grow food and cash crops. |