HOTA Terms: Encounter=>Colonial Period
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- Mestizos
- A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory
- Moors
- Group who dominated Spain for 700 years
- Forced Labor
- Slavery
- Tupi
- a member of the South American Indian people living in Brazil and Paraguay
- Viceroyalties
- Provinces ruled by viceroys, direct representatives of the monarch.
- Small Pox
- Disease spread by Europeans in the Americas. Led to the deaths of millions of Native Americans in North and South America
- Quakers
- English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preache a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania
- Measles
- an infectious disease characterized by a bad cold, fever, and a breaking out of red spots on the skin
- Pequot
- native american tribe involved in the first conflict with the settlers in Connecticut
- Jamestown
- the name of the second English settlement in North America. It was started in present-day Virginia
- Montezuma
- Chief of the Aztec who could not resist Cortez
- Puritans
- Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization.
- Arawaks
- First Native Americans Columbus saw on Bahama Islands.
- Atahualpa
- Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
- Patriarchy
- a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
- Mayflower Compact
- An agreement by those on the Mayflower to make and obey laws for their colony. This is the first example of self-rule by American colonists
- Cash crop
- a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)
- Pizzaro
- Spanish conquistador Peru and Incas
- Virginia Company
- Joint-Stock Company in London that received a charter for land in the new world. Charter guarantees new colonists same rights as people back in England.
- Slave Trade
- the business of buying and selling slaves
- Spanish Inquisition
- the Inquisition that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries)
- Protestant Reformation
- a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches
- Taino
- native americans who lived where columbus first landed
- Pilgrims
- A group of people who left England because of religion who were sent to America to create another source of income for the British
- Massachusetts Bay Company
- A business with power from the king of england to set up a colony,pay for it,and make money from it.
- Encomiendas
- royal grants that gave Spaniards control over natives
- Iberia
- a peninsula in southwestern Europe
- Tithe
- an offering of a tenth part of some personal income
- Hegemony
- the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others
- Powhatan
- Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia
- Royal Fifth
- A tax on silver and gold of which one-fifth of its value went to the king of Spain
- Transculturation
- cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact