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Treaty of Tordesillias
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-1494, Spain and Portugal signed the treaty
-divided the world along an imaginary north-south line 370 leagues west of the Azores and cape Verde islands -Spain could claim any land west of the line -Portugal gained the same rights for lands east of the line |
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7 Years' War
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-1763
-the french colony in canada fell under british control and it, too, soon acquired institutions of self government |
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Conquistadors
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-"conquerors"
-pressed beyond the Caribbean islands, moving west into Mexico and south into Panama and Peru |
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Peninsulares
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-Latin American officials from Spain or Portugal
-stood at the top of the social hierarchy |
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Potosi
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-spanish prospectors discovered a large vein of silver near Potosí in 1545 and began large-scale mining in the 1580s
-by 1600 it was a boomtown with a pop. of 150,000 |
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Smallpox
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-when the disease reached the Caribbean region and touched off devastating epidemics among the peoples of the western hemisphere
-to replace laborers lost to disease, the encomenderos launched raiding parties to enslave and kidnap the Taíno and other peoples -went from about 4 million in 1492 to a few thousand in 1540s (because of disease) |
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mestizo (metis)
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-"mixed"
-because of the small number of european women, spanish and portuguese migrants entered into relationships with indigenous women, giving rise to a mestizo society -with few european women in brazil, portuguese men readily entered into relations with indigenous women and african slave women -marriages between members of different racial and ethnic communities became common in colonial brazil |
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Viceroy
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-king's representatives in the Americas
-wielded considerable power -audiencias had to review their performance in the end of their terms and negative reviews could lead to severe punishment -transportation and communication difficulties limited the ability of viceroys to supervise their territories |
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Mulattoes
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-Mulattoes, zambos and other mixed parentage became predominant groups in Brazilian society
-subordinate to european migrants, euro-american creoles and even mestizos |
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Mita System
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-Inca practice of requisitioning draft labor
-to recruit workers for particularly difficult and dangerous chores that free laborers wouldn't accept - spanish authorities demanded anually each village to send 1/7 of its male pop. to work for 4 months in the mines in Potosí |
